The staffing meetings were held at the Education Center today. Were there a lot of staffing cuts at Arlington? I heard this may happen. I also heard that Arlington High School may be phased out. I cannot see how that could be. If anyone has any news, please respond.
Well clearly the blogmaster does otherwise this would not be a topic. Typically, I find that some of the badmouthing towards the blogmaster is unnecessary, but I can't help but feel this is a schoolyard game. Why beat around the bush?
This is very unsettling for the staff at Arlington. If there is any news, the blogmater should let us know unless it cannot be announced until after the business is conducted at the school board meeting tonight.
I just finished reading all of the reports for the Board Meeting and there was no negative mention of Arlington. In fact, the only main mention was to update the technology at all of the high schools, including Arlington. I suppose we will have to wait for either the news or tomorrow to find out what the blogmaster is speaking of.
QUESTION: Will the teachers and staff at Arlington be considered IPS employees or State of Indiana employees? The medical care for the state is much worse than even what IPS has.
IPS' medical coverage is very good in my opinion. I am on some very expensive biologicals. They cost $3200 a month and I only pay $125 co-pay, of course that is in addition to the $360 a month a pay for the coverage. Still less than 20%.
..but they might as well be security guards since they refuse to be involved in discipline issues. They tell teachers to take care of....especially at Tech High School.
Bringing the police into school discipline problems is no different then calling the police because your son won't listen to you at home. If a child is a danger to himself or others or doing something illegal, sure call the police. Other than that, you should leave them out of it.
When our new high school principal arrived in our building in August, he brought a school policeman with him. In other words, he'd hand-picked a particular IPS school police officer with whom he knew he could have a good working relationship. As a result, our school police are good and come to classrooms where they're requested. If a student throws a trashcan or starts kicking a desk across the room, then the police will come to the class and take them away. In some high schools, this would not occur. The building principal sets the tone for the school police. If the principal wants 'order' in his/her building, then the school police will enforce 'order' whatever it takes.
How about sending the kids who need bouncers to alternative school. Then we wouldn't need police officers except when crimes are being committed. But as it stands, there is no way I would send my child to a school where police officers were enforcing school discipline. All you are doing is teaching kids that police officers exist to force people into submission (rather than prevent crime and make arrests after crimes have been committed). That's beyond insane. If you wanted to CREATE criminals, I can't imagine a better way to do it then having police act as bouncers for schools.
No, I don't teach at Arlington. What's the bad news?
ReplyDeleteJust teaching at Arlington is bad news.
ReplyDeleteAmen to the above post! One year at Arlington was enough for me.
ReplyDeleteThe staffing meetings were held at the Education Center today. Were there a lot of staffing cuts at Arlington? I heard this may happen. I also heard that Arlington High School may be phased out. I cannot see how that could be. If anyone has any news, please respond.
ReplyDeleteWell clearly the blogmaster does otherwise this would not be a topic. Typically, I find that some of the badmouthing towards the blogmaster is unnecessary, but I can't help but feel this is a schoolyard game. Why beat around the bush?
ReplyDeleteC'mon blogmaster...you started it; now finish it. What's the story?
ReplyDeleteThis is very unsettling for the staff at Arlington. If there is any news, the blogmater should let us know unless it cannot be announced until after the business is conducted at the school board meeting tonight.
ReplyDeleteThere is a lot that will be coming down the pike after tonight's Board meeting.
ReplyDeleteLike what? I'll believe it when I read it from a reliable news source.
ReplyDeleteI hope teachers are not blamed for this fight.
ReplyDeleteI just finished reading all of the reports for the Board Meeting and there was no negative mention of Arlington. In fact, the only main mention was to update the technology at all of the high schools, including Arlington. I suppose we will have to wait for either the news or tomorrow to find out what the blogmaster is speaking of.
ReplyDeleteQUESTION: Will the teachers and staff at Arlington be considered IPS employees or State of Indiana employees? The medical care for the state is much worse than even what IPS has.
ReplyDeleteIPS' medical coverage is very good in my opinion. I am on some very expensive biologicals. They cost $3200 a month and I only pay $125 co-pay, of course that is in addition to the $360 a month a pay for the coverage. Still less than 20%.
ReplyDeleteIs IPS going to outsource its school security guard service to Securatex?
ReplyDeleteI recently had a trip to the ER which cost almost $11,000. My deductible was $3000. I also had a $50 co-pay.
ReplyDeleteno to securatex. IPS doesn't have secuity guards. ips has school police trained as LLEOs at the Indiana Law Enforcement Academy. big difference.
ReplyDelete..but they might as well be security guards since they refuse to be involved in discipline issues. They tell teachers to take care of....especially at Tech High School.
ReplyDeleteWhere is the "wow" factor - the unsuspected news?
ReplyDeleteIdiot IPS Police are hired to enforce the law not deal with teachers petty discipline issues. Those are issues left up to teachers and administrators.
ReplyDeleteI agree with the above post (without the idiot part). The police should only worry about actual legal matters, not discipline matters.
ReplyDeleteBringing the police into school discipline problems is no different then calling the police because your son won't listen to you at home. If a child is a danger to himself or others or doing something illegal, sure call the police. Other than that, you should leave them out of it.
ReplyDeleteWhen our new high school principal arrived in our building in August, he brought a school policeman with him. In other words, he'd hand-picked a particular IPS school police officer with whom he knew he could have a good working relationship. As a result, our school police are good and come to classrooms where they're requested. If a student throws a trashcan or starts kicking a desk across the room, then the police will come to the class and take them away. In some high schools, this would not occur. The building principal sets the tone for the school police. If the principal wants 'order' in his/her building, then the school police will enforce 'order' whatever it takes.
ReplyDeleteSee, I wouldn't call that a police officer at all. I would call that a bouncer.
ReplyDeleteHow about sending the kids who need bouncers to alternative school. Then we wouldn't need police officers except when crimes are being committed. But as it stands, there is no way I would send my child to a school where police officers were enforcing school discipline. All you are doing is teaching kids that police officers exist to force people into submission (rather than prevent crime and make arrests after crimes have been committed). That's beyond insane. If you wanted to CREATE criminals, I can't imagine a better way to do it then having police act as bouncers for schools.
ReplyDeleteI wouldn't send my kids to a school where the superintendent is a bully and the principals are afraid to enforce the discipline policies.
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