Thursday, April 15, 2010
Is Eugene Paranoid Or Are They Really Out to Get Him?
The rumor coming out of the Central Office is that Eugene White is going off the deep end. He is getting paranoid and thinks everyone from the State down to the janitors are out to get him. The next time you see him, look in his eyes and tell us if you see someone who is losing his mind?
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I talked to him two days ago and didn't notice anything odd.
ReplyDeleteI would rather not look in his eyes, for fear of turning into stone.
ReplyDeleteHis disjointed opinion piece in the paper this week shows a man who is getting desperate to spin his program and a man who knows that the gravy train is coming to an end. His 60% of my teachers are bad teachers is on its third revision already. He is trying to find someway to make that make since.
ReplyDeleteJust because he thinks people are out to "get him" doesn't mean it's not true. That is why the "bobble-headed board" are hiring his own food taster, police officer armed with a assualt weapon, bullet proof vehicle, bullet proof windows, and a safe room in his home. The board will approve the costs, $2 million dollars with one bold sweep, we must keep Dr. White safe from the white middle-aged teachers.
ReplyDeleteI hope that the last post was a bluff.
ReplyDeleteDr. White is an intelligent, well educated man. If he believes that people are out to get him, who are we to contradict?
ReplyDeleteOh, great. Another stupid topic. Why can't we get a topic about which schools are being reconstituted? Or, NAME the principals who've been told they're being reassigned to other schools? Who CARES if Eugene is paranoid? As long as we retain this school board, Eugene will sleep peacefully. I'm just a middle-aged, white female, who is starting to get paranoid that my transfer request will never be approved.
ReplyDeleteIf he is intelligent, why does he have Mary Louise Bewley as his spokesperson?
ReplyDeleteBy what standard are you judging Eugene White to be well educated. He has IPS in shambles and several of our schools ready to be taken over by the state. We are near bankruptcy. Morale is a an all time low. Class size is going to increase greatly in August. He has just lowered IPS graduation requirements in order to prop up his graduation rate. MORE ADMINISTRATORS ARE BEING HIRED. Go figure.
ReplyDeleteWhat administrators are they hiring? I've heard we may be hiring a bunch of new principals...
ReplyDeleteAt least a switch....
ReplyDeleteMark Nardo to 67.
Sam Adkins to 93
Anybody know anymore?
When should a transfer list come...that is if there is even going to be one???
ReplyDeleteI can't imagine why anyone would want to be a superintendent of a large school district...what a terrible job! So they are getting grants to bring more more programs into the schools that are struggling...I don't think we need more consultants or more programs - we more autonomy at the building levels, more neighborhoods where the school is the center of community activity and is open to teaching adults as well as kids....
ReplyDeletewhoops..should read we need more autonomy..
ReplyDeleteWe need principals who are willing to discipline kids, not just make them hold hands for 10 minutes and then send them back to class.
ReplyDeleteBob Berry from Shortridge to Arlington.
ReplyDeleteWe need principals that will FOLLOW the six step discipline plan. It is definitely NOT being followed in our school.
ReplyDeleteNot being followed in our school either. :(
ReplyDeleteAll of the "GOOD, DECENT Principals" have left IPS or retired! These were the principals that followed and implemented the six step discipline plan. The "old school" Principals handled and took care of the discipline problems in their buildings, they had total control over the students and the students respected them for it. Now we have the "bobble headed" principals who are afraid to enforce discipline(they are stepford wives of Dr. White). The students at our school are getting away with everything but murder, but the principal at our school is so afraid of the parents and doesn't like confrontation, so she turns her head as if she doesn't know what is going on! GREAT WAY to run a school building! Basically, the teachers have no support at all, guess we better watch our own backs!
ReplyDeleteWhere is the tranfer list for staff people who are fed up at their present school buildings, and who need to get the hell out of their buildings before they lose their sanity? When is that list coming out Erin Farrell?
ReplyDeleteThe principal at our school is only concerned with the how the plants and bushes look and how well manicured the lawn is....that is her concern 24 hours a day...in the meantime, the students are out of control and her discipline deans seem to be missing in action frequently.
ReplyDeleteWhere is the current principal of 93 going to go?
ReplyDeleteRegarding "old school" principals, what do you think is the best way to address the problems facing an urban school. (Assume you are a principal or other administrator.)
ReplyDelete1) Try to get parents, and students and younger teachers to adapt to "old school" ways of teaching and discipline. Assuming you are even able to do that, cross your fingers that kids are able to adapt this "old school" mentality into a "new school" world. Also cross your fingers that you won't lose great students and teachers to schools who are more current and relevant and less hostile to students, parents, and innovative teachers.
2) Attempt to get parents, students, and teachers on the same page, so that nobody has to "have total control." Duplicate policies and methods that are successful in other urban districts, policies and methods that the majority of students, parents and teachers support. Base your decisions on the concept that collaboration will maximize learning potential, and the collaboration itself is a great education model for how to problem solve in the real world.
I don't know if this is what you mean or not, but right before I checked in here, I checked my e-mail and a friend had sent me a YouTube video that her 6th grade son did for a Civics Assignment. The boys were dressed up like the members of Kiss and singing a version of "Rock and Roll All Nite Long" where the teacher had changed the lyrics to lessons about the Bill of Rights. Not only are these kids going to remember the Bill of Rights because it's been set to music and rhymes, but I'm sure the class had 100% homework completion because it was something the kids really enjoyed doing. Also, what kind of discipline problems do you think a teacher like that gets in his/her class. I'm guessing not very many.
ReplyDeleteWas the teacher following the benchmarks? Nope, so she is behind in her teaching and the students will get poor grades on the benchmarks. That is a failing teacher under Dr. White, yes it's the truth.
ReplyDeleteWhat benchmarks would a lesson like that miss versus a textbook lesson? (I'm not a teacher, so I don't know.)
ReplyDeleteI'm an IPS social studies teacher, and whoever posted above is full of it. This kind of lesson would not only be allowed by the district, but celebrated and encouraged (although I personally wouldn't use classic rock with urban kids, lol). I know, because I've done similar lessons and I've received commendations by my principal and Dr. White. And the poster who mentioned these kinds of lessons likely decrease discipline problems is absolutely right. IPS has enough problems without making things up!
ReplyDelete"I checked my e-mail and a friend had sent me a YouTube video that her 6th grade son did for a Civics Assignment. The boys were dressed up like the members of Kiss and singing a version of "Rock and Roll All Nite Long" where the teacher had changed the lyrics to lessons about the Bill of Rights."
ReplyDeleteWhere is this link? I remember reading in the paper where the founder of the KISS Army was once a teacher at IPS on the east side.
there is a youtube posting by a teacher in Hawaii with great examples just type in history rocks and you will see her do amazing things that I too have done in my classroom.
ReplyDeleteIf I had behaved as Eugene White has while serving as Superintendent, I would be paranoid also.
ReplyDeleteI know nothing about Nardo- but I couldn't be happier to hear that Heatcock will be out of 67. She is batshit crazy, scary and ineffectual. I worked there for almost 2 years and she didn't even know where my office was!
ReplyDeleteSorry "Heathcock"... it's Saturday so I'm not fully functional.
ReplyDeleteBenchmarks are used to test for student's knowledge of a certain subject,and we are required to use pacing guides to make sure we have taught that portion of the test. If you spend too much time on a certain subject, then your students will miss a huge portion of the test. Then you are titled a "bad teacher" by Dr. Bennett and Dr. White. In today's climate, being clever makes a poor teacher, it's the test scores that count.
ReplyDeleteThe KISS Army guy is now on the north-west side of town. He looks a lot like Larry Bird. :)
ReplyDeleteBenchmarks are district made and really tell nothing. Two years ago (I believe) a questioned focused on what frequency the first radio wave was broadcast on.
ReplyDeleteThat was suppose to indicate the growing connectivity of the world (or something to that effect if I remember right). My kids understood that communication is bringing the world together but they did not know the frequency.
Benchmarks are nothing but trivial pursuit. Someone downtown deams something important, without telling the teachers, then if the kids don't know that trivia but may know the era and other information, are deamed poor or bad.
Most of the downtown buddies of Eugene White could not pass many of the elementary benchmarks.
ReplyDeleteThe principal at 93 is going to be an assitant prinicpal.
ReplyDeleteBetty Beene is retiring and Scott Coffey will take over 88
Linda Burchfield is retiring and Elizabeth Gehm will take over 39
Toni Trice is retiring and Lauren Johnson is taking over 51
That's what I remember from the Board Report. Which is public knowledge and you can read at any time.