One of the Heartland Film Festivals said on the radio Friday she wants to make a movie about IPS and Dr. White. If you were the head of central casting who would play Dr. White and who would play the school board and the IPS staff? Don't hold back.
I've long ago come to the conclusion that the blogmaster isn't someone who is pro-teacher, anti-administration at all. I'd bet big money that this blog was created by an IPS administrator to show how immature and unreasonable IPS teachers are. He/she starts threads like the one above and then posts gossip and insults, pretending to be teachers, and the public who reads this blog shakes their head and thinks "That's whats wrong with education! We need to get rid of the unions so these morons can be fired." Similarly, he/she always makes up stuff when posting about charter schools or reforms so that others will correct it, again showing that IPS teachers are defensive idiots spreading misinformation. Go back and reread through this blog and tell me what you think.
Is they guy who did the voice for Elmer Fudd still available? I must admit that it would have to be a science fiction movie and so many of White's schemes are so bizarre and weird that no one would believe that an educated person really did it.
criminently...it's a stress reliever to laugh every once in a while...so if casting a movie with someone playing the roles of IPS administrators makes you snicker, go for it... The guy who played Boss Hogg did big blustery, and out to touch well..
@One of the Heartland Film Festivals said on the radio Friday she wants to make a movie about IPS...
Surely, you jest. Or, perhaps one of those limo liberal film artists wants to 'feel good' making a movie about the 'poor disadvantaged' inner city people. It's always easier to stand back and look at it or talk about it than to get into the middle of it, isn't it?
They are public figures, haven't you ever seen an editorial cartoon? It is quite common, pick up a newspaper, you'll find them on the editorial pages. Watch John Stewart, or Rush Limbaugh...or any of the other pundits...when you are a public figure you are fair game for jokes, and have been for generations...don't be so naive.
This thread is in no way comparable to political satire. You're not making fun of things people said or did. You're making fun of how people look and talk. That stopped being funny to me by first or second grade.
I'm sorry but it isn't the way people look or talk, it is what comes out of their brains, or mouths (what they say) that makes them so funny...come on don't you see the humor in a man who is so in love with himself and so self important that he tells a bunch of kindergarteners that his favorite book is the one he wrote...what a horses ass.
The blog master (I inadvertently typed "Bog Master" and maybe that would be a more apt description...because we are getting bogged down) but the point was that this person appears to like to throw out topics that will generate remarks that are denigrating and juvenile and that do not promote an intelligent discussion of the issues. I would suppose that most of would admit that we find some interest in gossip and petty remarks even as we condemn them. I know I am guilty of that and feel ashamed.
Seriousy? We're really wasting time on such a STUPID topic? With all the problems, rumors, burn-outs, discipline problems, year-round school debates, et al, this is the best the blogmaster can come up with? And, yet, we keep wondering why the reputation of IPS is going down the toilet?
I don't see why we can't "Waste time" on other topics. It isn't like this blog is designed to change the system. Teachers can't change it neither can parents. So be it. The principal has the last and final vote for our SBDM, if that tells you how much teachers/staff can affect change. I think Dr. White would play himself.
To the person way above saying this is not a good subject.
This is no different that watching Saturday Night Live satires of the President and other politicaland world figures. They mock how they dress, hair, move their hands, etc.
In addition to the their political positions. So, this is a fair subject. As someone said, just like political cartoons. Last time I looked those cartoons have subjects with big hair, outlandish dress, mocking the way the real people are. Get over yourself.
Everyone has there own way to vent. If people want to do this as well as talk about other subjects than so be it.
I cannot see all that I wrote on this cell phone. So, before the grammar and spelling police show up. I am sorry. (Sad commentary that one state this as well. Instead of taking content everyone wants to break things down. Discussion boards were not meant for excellent grammar in my opinoin. They are ment for the exchange of ideas.)
This insults/"jokes" aren't an exchange. It's one person pretending to be many. And it's important for teachers to publicly dissociate ourselves from you. Because you give the impression that your posts are from teachers. Most of them are not from teachers. I don't know a single teacher who doesn't cringe at the personal insults, namedropping, gossip, etc. that you post. It's not the equivalent of SNL or editorials. It's the equivalent of cyberbullying, which again, as teachers, we are all very aware of. And this isn't about ME getting over myself. This is my third post on this thread. The others that disagree with you are from other people. When multiple people post different opinions on an online forum, THAT is an exchange. Hope that helps :)
When you present yourself as a buffoon to the public, don't be shocked when you are regarded and treated as a buffoon. When Eugene struts around dressed like a lowlife pimp with too tight suits and all of his gold bling then he asking to be ridiculed. He deserves what he gets. He should hear what many of his administators say about him.
And notice that not all administrators are portrayed in a negative manner. There are still many fine administrators left in IPS, but they really need to lay low.
And it is just as likely that all the posts that decry this thread are from the same humorless person as that all the posts that find the humor are one person.
Your contention that this is cyber bullying really diminishes real cyber bullying, there is a bully operating in IPS right out in the open This is more like the French Resistance lobbing grenades at the Germans, a rather futile act of defiance...but still an act of defiance.It is known that it annoys the bully, and brings to light the hostile work environment.
Why would anyone spend any energy wanting to annoy someone, bully or night. Don't you have any positive energy you can direct toward something productive? Sure, venting and humor is healthy. But can we vent and joke without dragging any specific name through the mud? Isn't that what we tell kids? That you don't need to put down someone else in order to lift yourself up?
Here is the problem with White, he only does a little research and makes decisions based on that factor. Research proves that poor kids lose ground during the summer, it also proves that well off kids actually gain ground over the summer. Now here is a kicker, in reality research proves that poor kids and well off kids gain the same amount during the school year. So based on a growth model we are not failing as teachers, the system isn't broken. The problem of the achievement gap lies in what happens when kids aren't in school. It has to do with parenting style.
If we go to year round schools, still the 180 school days, it won't really address what doesn't happen at home. This is so much more than a school problem, it is a community problem, and we need community to solve it... so what does White do, he alienates community, families, and teacher.
The difference between what I have termed "rich and poor" is not economic, but has to do with parenting style and expectations, parents who are actively engaged in raising their kids, taking them places, doing things with them, encouraging them to read, signing them up for classes. The "poor" parents just let their kids be. Why aren't we, as a community, addressing parenting style and parenting support, welcoming parents into schools and supporting good parenting. WFYI has wonderful programs to support parenting, http://www.wfyi.org/parentingCounts.asp but why aren't the commercials for this program run during Jerry Springer, instead they run on PBS children's programming, essentially preaching to the choir.
If you don't have time to read Outliers by Gadwell read pages 255-260 on the achievement gap. And where is ISTA and IEA, why aren't they defending teachers from this blame game.
I think you are kind of perverting the meaning behind outliers. Sure, parenting counts, but so does school. Gadwell's whole premise is that genius is based on hours, not talent. But if the hours at school are wasted, that's just as damaging as if the hours at home are wasted. I would love to see your source for your claim that poor kids and well-off kids advance the same during the school year. It certainly isn't from Outliers.
I agree with the above post. The problem with the poorest kids is that they are offed robbed on both fronts. They receive fewer hours of effective learning at school, and they receive fewer hours of effective learning at home. Most of the time, I don't think it's about good/bad teaching or good/bad parenting. The idea that wealthy parents love their kids most and are the best parents is bullshit, and I think most of us know that. But I don't think parents who lack formal education are able to recognize the kinds of things that will help a child "add hours" of expertise. Similarly, I don't think many teachers know how to differentiate instruction so that each child is getting the most out of his/her hours at school. There's much room for improvement at home and at school.
"I would love to see your source for your claim that poor kids and well-off kids advance the same during the school year. It certainly isn't from Outliers."
Guess you didn't read the whole book.
page 257-258
“Here is a completely different story from the one suggested by the first table. The first set of test results made it look like lower income kids were somehow failing in the classroom. But here we see this plainly isn’t true. Look at the” total” column. Over the course of five years of elementary school, poor kids “out-learn” the wealthiest kids 189 points to 184 points. They lag behind middle class kids by only a modest amount, and in fact in one year second grade they learn more than the middle- or upper-class kids. Next, lets see what happens if we look just at how reading scores change during summer vacations. Do you see the difference? Look at the first column, which measures what happens over the summer after first grade. The wealthiest kids come back in September and their reading scores have jumped more than 15 points. The poorest kids come back from holiday and their reading scores have dropped almost 4 points. Poor kids may outlearn rich kids during the school year. But during the summer they fall far behind. Now look at the last column, which totals up all the summer gains from first grade to fifth grade. The reading scores of the poor kids goes up by .26 points. When it comes to reading skills, poor kids learn nothing when school is not in session. The reading scores of the rich kids, by contrast, go up by a whopping 52.49 points. Virtually all of the advantage that wealthy students have over poor students is the result of differences in the way privileged kids learn when they are not in school.”
I guess not. I don't own the book, I checked it out from the library. Do you know the study from which he based his table? Also, your passage doesn't mention anything about middle school and high school, which is when the achievement gap worsens. These are the grades with which I have experience, and at least in IPS, it's a huge minority of students who are advancing a full grade level every year in school.
Karl L. Alexander, Doris R. Entwisle, and Linda Olson's study on the impact of summer vacation is called "Schools, Achievement, and Inequity: A Seasonal Perspective," published in Educational Evaluation and Policy Analysis 23, no 2 Summer 2001; pgs 171-191. The book also includes the tables referenced in the quote.
Other studies that I have read cite the socio-economic aspect of disengagement on inner city youth, which dramatically increases in about 6th grade.
Black American Students in an Affluent Suburb: A Study of Academic Disengagement by John U. Ogbu is an interesting read, here is an outline of the book. http://findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_qa3752/is_200311/ai_n9313925/
When I read the book I saw it less as a book about race and more about a book about parenting traditions and expectations. Parents basically do what there parents did, and parents who have escaped poverty often use the parenting model of poverty. Sometimes you hear it in classrooms, this is what my parents did and I got an education and am successful, but the speaker often fails to note siblings who did not succeed.
This is why the first chapters in Outliers is so important, in terms of parents and what they do, their influence. Support "best practices" in parenting would yield results in the schools. But are our schools parent friendly, embracing, supportive...or hostile, bullying and judgmental?
I agree that our schools are not parent family. But I also think we have a lot of teachers who aren't parent-friendly or even student-friendly. Changing the culture of our schools is something we can control. Changing the culture outside of schools is not something we can control. But if we change the culture of the school, we have a much better chance of gaining respect from the community we serve than when we judge, bully, and otherwise treat them with hostility.
Why aren't we replicating the schools that are working in the district? I just heard that CFI is opening another school in 2011. Why aren't we thinking about opening another Montessori? A math and science elementary school? A whatever has a proven track record with a competent leader! Come on, most of the schools that work in this district started as TEACHER led initiatives. If you are going to talk the talk, walk the walk!
The school alone cannot change family dynamics, but the community can, imagine if the schools, churches, and other community organizations worked together, in an invitational manner to strengthen families. I once talked to a principal at an inner ring suburb school that served low income kids (the same socio-economic group that IPS serves and she said "My first job was to get parents through the front door, I do health fairs, exercise sessions, bingo, what ever it takes." During her tenure at the school test scores, and attendance increased every year... dramatically. She left and they dropped.
It is too late, Green Acres is the show about IPS, the Eddie Albert character is the teachers, the towns people are the students and their parents, and Zsa Zsa Gabor is the administration. Mr.Douglas has been in the wider world and knows how limited and ridiculous the attitudes and beliefs of the town folks are. Mrs. Douglas has been in the wider world, but goes along with the town folks and buys into their distorted view of the world. She wall papers over the ramshackle walls of the farm house, never addressing the underlying problems, pretends she can cook and continues to make "hots cakes" when no one eats them. And wouldn't Dr. White look great in one of those feathered boas?
wow...we came close to having some worthwhile and educational discussion there for a minute - then we were transported to Green Acres. Have to say, that analogy made little sense...
You obviously have never been in a conversation with a high school boy who is five feet one inch, isn't on the school basketball team, and insists his future career is as a center in the NBA. He will have no talk of a fall back career choice, and his parents agree. This makes as much sense as the towns folks believing Arnold Ziffle can read, is in the third grade, and loves Walter Cronkite. Much of what both students and parents believe is absurd.
Would you teach your children to respect someone who thought both you and your child were absurd. I wouldn't. Wouldn't you be better off convincing the child and the child's parents that being educated has value whether he goes to college or is drafted in the NBA. He'll have contracts he needs to understand, advertising deals he'll need to compare and contrast. He'll want a general knowledge of the world so that if he's asked something in an interview about a disaster or a political cause, he doesn't look like an idiot.
See? We're all on the same side. We need to convince the kids and parents of that.
You're just as embarrassing as your students. All of you give IPS a bad name as well as the Magnet program. You should be ashamed of yourselves for tolerating this kind of behavior. No wonder Broadripple is full of ill-mannered students. I have more links like this from Broadripple High School if you need me to make a fool out of you even further.
I also can't see the video. However, I imagine the 144 teachers at Broad Ripple are busy actually teaching during the school day instead of doing potty patrol all day long. Take your concern up with the administrators and police officers who should be responsible for this.
Brandon Cosby's former girlfriend has "resigned" today from her new school. Of course, this was after a meeting she was summoned to downtown because she had her students "march" with her on Friday during the school day as she protested the administration at her new school by carrying signs outside of their offices referring to them as Nazis. This was apparently to protest the fact that they wrote her up for being insubordinate because AFTER another staff member politely refused Cher's request to take down her bulletin board so Cher could promote some activity she's doing on the board, she went ahead and ripped down the other staff member's display to put up her own. Of course, after being warned the first time that she was insubordinate, she went ahead and removed the staff member's display AGAIN after it had been put back up. So, since the administrators were apparently the ones being completely unreasonable in that situation, she helped her middle school-aged students make up posters referring to the administrators as Nazis and walked them down to the office during the school day to protest! She and Cosby deserve each other because they're both two of the most self-absorbed people I've ever known. Of course, now that she's officially released from IPS, it will be interesting to see what info comes to light about the affair...
The protest involved the students standing up against abuse of power, which is something the teacher speaks adamantly about with her classes. The principal made the decision to take down a display that benefited the children because a senior staff member who's ideas are as outdated as her boards ran to him like a little school girl. She wanted the 17 foot display all to herself so that she could have plenty of room to staple random pieces of "information" up. Her ideas are as outdated as her bulletin boards but because BRHS subscribes to the theory that "because it has always been it always will be," she got her way. David Tuttle removed the board that she put up for no other reason than to reiterate the fact that he was in charge. Screw the kids. Screw what they needed in that moment. It was all about power.
First of all, I know this is you, Cher. You ALWAYS confuse "whose" vs. "who's" in all of your emails and other writings. We roll our eyes about it behind your back. Pretty irritating coming from a language arts teacher.
Second of all, you had no right to take down another staff member's bulletin board no matter what you think about the content of it -- why do YOU get to judge the fact that your display was SO much more beneficial than anyone else's? How arrogant. You managed to skip over that little part in your version of the events -- when you asked if you could use that display...were told "No"...and went ahead and took it down anyway. That is as rude as can be.
Third of all, the ultimate abuse of power is to take a classroom full of middle school kids, encourage them to make protest signs referring to people as "Nazis" (which is just in unspeakably poor taste -- you're equating an administrator's decision to not let you put up a bulletin board display with the atrocities committed against Jews, homosexuals, and other disadvantaged groups????), and have them protest a decision that YOU didn't like. If a kid didn't particularly WANT to protest the administration, they still certainly felt pressured to do so by you (an authority figure) and their classmates? You're having middle school kids fight your battle for you -- whether or not they truly wanted to -- and you're complaining about OTHER people abusing power?
I wonder why Cher was disciplined at Shortridge and Brandon Cosby was not. What does that teach students when they see a situation handled like that? Don't be naive and think that the students didn't know as they were all talking about it and carrying petitions.
Too bad to lose a potentially great teacher because she didn't have the support and direction she needed from her administrators. Cher was caught up in "The Cosby Show" at Shortridge and was brainwashed by him and his agenda at that point. Then she was unwillingly transfered to Broad Ripple but faced a very different administration when she got there. She was set up for failure from the get go. The bottom line is that she had the potential to have a very positive and empowering impact on students' lives but was cut short because the administration at Broad Ripple stuck their heads in the sand, and in spite of being informed as to the issues surrounding Cher's behavior with the students, did nothing to rectify the ill-fated situation that was continually brought to them. Shame on them.
wouldn't they have had to leave their offices and actually enter the instructional portion of the building to have done that? Up three flights of stairs?
To the post directly above: "She was set up for failure"? Bullshit! She was transferred instead of fired last year. That was a SAVING of her ass rather than a SETUP for failure. Cher would be the first person to have a conniption if someone tore her stuff down, yet she has such an exaggerated sense of self that she felt perfectly fine taking down some other teacher's work. And then to drag kids into it? Ridiculous again. I have a middle school age child and I would be outraged if one of her teachers pulled a stunt like that. If she had been thinking with her brain rather than her ego she'd probably still have a job.
To "To the post directly above: "She was set up for failure"?": She was not fired last year because her BOSS was sexually harrassing her by HAVING SEX with her while she was his subordinate. You are an idiot. I don't know how she handled her self during this time, but her "superior" was 100% wrong for the entire time. Hear me? THE ENTIRE TIME! I'm sure you think I'm wrong, so please, tell us all why it was okay for a principal to have an affair with a teacher. Waiting to hear.
Two revealing statements by too big for his coat Pimp Gene:
"I have yet to make a mistake" and Every program I've brought into IPS has been successful. I'm currently batting 1000."
Plan on reporting to school July 28th. Day one....The Dr. Gene imp Show at ech. Next day will be for room prep, unless our administrator chooses to have a meeting. Students will report August 1st. PIT will be August 31.
White emphasized that all families will have the time and opportunity to exposed their children to foreign destinations, citing the "low time" our breaks will allow families to travel. Must be nice.
Also, all staff and students will be instructed to schedule doctors' appointments and inservice classes during the intercessions.
In one paragraph, it inferred that the intervention weeks will permit remediation to studetns (ESPECIALLY athletes!)
So let me get this right, she had sex with a principal, and it was consensual, she posted the details of her romantic life on facebook and shared this with students also on facebook, she got transferred and at her new school she tore down another teachers' bulletin board, and installed her own, without permission...then she involved students in a wildly inappropriate protest over a BULLETIN BOARD...So this woman was willing to give up her career over a bulletin board.
This fight wasn't over academic freedom, or something that the school was unwilling to provide that students needed, something of consequence...it was over a BULLETIN BOARD ....Please...this woman needed some help...not an affair with a principal. And what principals have allowed this crazyiness to continue for years?
@The protest involved the students standing up against abuse of power. . .
Bull! The sign-carrying protest came about because Cher did NOT get her way, plain and simple. For unknown reasons, she has a false sense of entitlement.
Now that Cher is gone...when will fat ass Brandon Cosby be gone? Oh, I forgot. He is an admnistrator and is entitled to have affairs with any of his employees he wishes.
A student of Cher's came to me in tears after the protest. She didn't want to be involved but didn't feel like she had a choice. She thought she was in trouble. She was really affected by it. Students shouldn't be made to feel like they have to go against a teacher to stay out of trouble.
It would be an entirely different thing if the students had decided on their own to protest, but to be encouraged/led by a teacher over something as trivial as the use of a bulletin board is simply ridiculous. The War in Afghanistan, racism, sexism, poverty, inequity of educational opportunities yes...but a bulletin board?
She isn't gone because of the affair with Cosby, she is gone because she felt a sense of superiority to others in the building, did not comply with directives, and involved students in her problems. Quite frankly she doesn't seem too stable, and had exhibited poor judgement in many aspects of her career, too bad she didn't get much needed guidance from a good administrator somewhere along the line.
To the poster 10 posts up screeching "THE ENTIRE TIME": Cher posted stuff about her affair with Cosby AND many, many people knew the affair was going on; if she was being "sexually harassed" by her administrator having sex with her that is called RAPE and should have been reported to IMPD who would have taken her to get a rape kit done on her at Wishard. So no, while it is not okay for any administrator to be involved with a subordinate sexually, the relationship between Cosby and Cher was CONSENSUAL. Don't offend victims of sexual abuse like that. Her FB pictures show her embracing many people in hercute little pigtails (like a little girl -- hmmmm) so she obviously is not adverse to human touch, which many rape victims are. To say that her administrator sexually harassed her by having sex with her is bullshit. My DSMV-IVR diagnosis on her: borderline Personality with Narcissism
"Even if the relationship itself is consensual, there is a risk that the superior may expose the company to a sexual harassment lawsuit if the relationship with a subordinate ends badly. Employees in a direct superior/subordinate professional relationship are often discouraged from forming personal relationships in order to avoid potential complications in the future."
from the site of an attorney who specializes in labor law.
How dumb is Brandon Cosby to allow this to happen, and how dumb is IPS for not letting him go...
It's a shame this teacher seems to thrive on drama (the affair, the bulletin board, her Facebook posts). The kids seem to like her. It still doesn't make it okay to drag them into her drama. It's probably just as well that she resigned. But like I said, it is a shame.
We all don't know the details of her relationship with Mr. Cosby or what was involved in the decision to transfer her from Shortridge to Broad Ripple. I'm sure if she had a case to sue for sexual harassment, she would have done so.
A nameless, brainless principal of an out-of-control elementary is apparently intimidated by a particular teacher there. Too bad, because it's a colleague of the intimidating teacher, (and a close friend of a board member), that she should really be worried about.
Well lets see if Cher is not doing as she is told by her boss how can we think the kids shold listen to the teachers and other staff. She shold have been a good leader to the kids she was in charge of. Her ass was saved, and that is how she repaid the one who saved it? Cher got what was coming to her in the end. She was not set up she did all that shit at Ripple on her own NO one was there pushing her but, her. Broad Ripple is a wonderful school with a great staff. Dave Tuttle is one of the nicest guys I have ever worked with. Shame on you Cher for pulling this shit, the kids look to you as a role model now you have shown them they can have a lace of respect for adults. YOU were wrong everyone knows it so just go away and be quite no one cares you did your children wrong in haveing them resit authority. You should have been and adult and did what you were told by your boss, how would you have felt if your students would have done that to you? Anyone on here who say's she was set up your are just as stupid as she is, Cher did everyting to herslef alone no one made her act crazy.. Perhpas you should join her on the unemployment line. A school is to teach the kid more then book you should show them that NOONE is above showing respect to others. Frankly I am glad you are gone there is a lot less drama now and NOT ONE kid is sad you have left. Sorry to be so forward but those of you who are saying she was set up are wrong she was saved by Ms. Davis then turned around and smacked her in the face.
I totally agree, she was NOT set up. She was given a break for her stupidity at Shortridge and given a second chance at Broad Ripple...sorry Princess, but you blew it!
Let me approach this response in chronological order. 1. This IS Cher 2. I can hardly understand the first sentence. Not because I'm an idiot Princess, but because your grammar is horrific (even worse than mine). 3. No, I was not set-up. In fact, it is an insult to me for someone to make such a statement. I knew EXACTLY what I was doing. And I'm not as crazy as I lead people to believe I am. 4. I agree that Broad Ripple is a wonderful school for the kids, but half of the staff is not there for the children's best interest, and they don't even know it. 5. Dave Tuttle is very nice, but just because he is nice does not mean that he understands how he abused his power. 6. I can understand why you think that I've taught the children to have a (lack) of respect for adults. However; I don't see it that way. I see it as them being aware of ways they have been and will continue to be wronged by adults, that way they are not victimized by them any longer. 7. I taught them to advocate for themselves. 8. I will NOT be quiet. The problem is that people have been quiet for too long. When it comes to the kids I will make as much noise as possible, no matter what it costs me, as evident of my actions last Friday. 9. If I would have done what my boss had told me, I would have made sure that I tracked every absence of every child from minute one so that the absences would count “the way we would like for them to when it's time to get rid of them.” If I would have done what my boss had told me to, I would have stood rigid at my 3rd floor door on the first day, as opposed to greeting the students in the main entryway as they walked in, anxious to face their teachers for the first time in three months. If I would have done what my boss told me to do I would have “trained those kids.” 10. How would I feel if my students were to do this to me? I would felt proud that they had listened to my words when I encouraged them to advocate for themselves no matter what. 11. Again, I was NOT set up, but those who think I was are not stupid, they are misinformed. It's not necessary to say negative things about people. 12. The unemployment line is for people who are not employed. Don't go assuming. 13. Actually, I did teach them that no one is above showing respect for others. I think the problem here is that the children are finally realizing that they are included in “others.” 14. You are right, not ONE kid is upset that I am gone, but several kids are upset. My phone won't stop ringing and my fanclub page has grown by more than 10 percent in the last three days. 15. I would never slap Linda Davis in the face. I have respect for her on so many levels, even though I disagree with her on so many others.
Sorry for any typos. It's late and I've had a few Blue Moons with ex co-workers . . . celebrating Cher's emancipation.
P.S.: Did anyone see those awesome scrimmage scores? 1st place in the building . . . not bad for a rebel Princess.
So where are you going to be teaching now? It seems you really enjoy your work with kids. Perhaps you will find a place where you will feel you can do that.
@Let me approach this response in chronological order.
Cher, dear child, please grab hold of your emotions and your need to emote in writing on a public blog. You're young, you're obviously bright, you still have a future, and you should not jeopardize that potentially bright future through posting every thought that passes through your mind. Some things are best left unsaid.
Move on, child. Learn from this. Wisdom comes from learning from our mistakes, whether well intended mistakes or not. Just move on. Don't write about your feelings on a public blog anymore, child. Whatever you post using your name will be forever cached somewhere on the Internet. Be careful what you say, to whom you say it, and where you say it. Love ya. Peace, child. Stay strong, stay silent, OK?
Sincerely, Older and wiser educator who has children older than you
Oh god, some of these post are just so stupid, this site is to have fun and release our frustration. If you don't like it get the fuck off. I'm tired off all these holiday wearing clothing teachers trying to defend IPS. Get a life and get off here. This is for fun. Go get laid or something!
Who died and made you king of anything? You don't get to say who belongs here and who doesn't. You don't get to determine the kinds of things that can be posted here and what can't. Yes, this blog was intended as something childish and mean-spirited and yet, many intelligent posters continue to come here and taint your nonsense with fruitful discussion. As a mentally unbalanced poster so eloquently said, "If you don't like it, get the fuck off." :)
Wow who knew adults could be such teenagers? All othe F bombs here, first this is an open blog we can post what we want, so if you know this is something that will upset you don't read it
Haha mentally unbalanced, thats what IPS does to you. You are either a pill popper, smoke weed, or are an alcoholic. It you disagree then you clearly have depression and haven't seen medical help for it. It's the truth, don't try and deny it. If you deny it that is the first sign of a real problem. Best to us all! :)
I've long ago come to the conclusion that the blogmaster isn't someone who is pro-teacher, anti-administration at all. I'd bet big money that this blog was created by an IPS administrator to show how immature and unreasonable IPS teachers are. He/she starts threads like the one above and then posts gossip and insults, pretending to be teachers, and the public who reads this blog shakes their head and thinks "That's whats wrong with education! We need to get rid of the unions so these morons can be fired." Similarly, he/she always makes up stuff when posting about charter schools or reforms so that others will correct it, again showing that IPS teachers are defensive idiots spreading misinformation. Go back and reread through this blog and tell me what you think.
ReplyDeleteIs they guy who did the voice for Elmer Fudd still available? I must admit that it would have to be a science fiction movie and so many of White's schemes are so bizarre and weird that no one would believe that an educated person really did it.
ReplyDeleteExhibit A.
ReplyDeletecriminently...it's a stress reliever to laugh every once in a while...so if casting a movie with someone playing the roles of IPS administrators makes you snicker, go for it...
ReplyDeleteThe guy who played Boss Hogg did big blustery, and out to touch well..
What kind of person gets stress relief from publicly mocking someone? You say it like it's normal and common, and it's not. At all.
ReplyDelete@One of the Heartland Film Festivals said on the radio Friday she wants to make a movie about IPS...
ReplyDeleteSurely, you jest. Or, perhaps one of those limo liberal film artists wants to 'feel good' making a movie about the 'poor disadvantaged' inner city people. It's always easier to stand back and look at it or talk about it than to get into the middle of it, isn't it?
check yourselves
ReplyDeleteThey are public figures, haven't you ever seen an editorial cartoon? It is quite common, pick up a newspaper, you'll find them on the editorial pages. Watch John Stewart, or Rush Limbaugh...or any of the other pundits...when you are a public figure you are fair game for jokes, and have been for generations...don't be so naive.
ReplyDeleteThis thread is in no way comparable to political satire. You're not making fun of things people said or did. You're making fun of how people look and talk. That stopped being funny to me by first or second grade.
ReplyDeleteI'm sorry but it isn't the way people look or talk, it is what comes out of their brains, or mouths (what they say) that makes them so funny...come on don't you see the humor in a man who is so in love with himself and so self important that he tells a bunch of kindergarteners that his favorite book is the one he wrote...what a horses ass.
ReplyDeleteAt last you have seen the light, Just Plain Stupid has taken over IPS.
ReplyDeleteThe blog master (I inadvertently typed "Bog Master" and maybe that would be a more apt description...because we are getting bogged down) but the point was that this person appears to like to throw out topics that will generate remarks that are denigrating and juvenile and that do not promote an intelligent discussion of the issues. I would suppose that most of would admit that we find some interest in gossip and petty remarks even as we condemn them. I know I am guilty of that and feel ashamed.
ReplyDeleteabove post should read "most of us would admit..."
ReplyDeleteSeriousy? We're really wasting time on such a STUPID topic? With all the problems, rumors, burn-outs, discipline problems, year-round school debates, et al, this is the best the blogmaster can come up with? And, yet, we keep wondering why the reputation of IPS is going down the toilet?
ReplyDeleteI don't see why we can't "Waste time" on other topics. It isn't like this blog is designed to change the system. Teachers can't change it neither can parents. So be it. The principal has the last and final vote for our SBDM, if that tells you how much teachers/staff can affect change.
ReplyDeleteI think Dr. White would play himself.
I'm glad to see that the self righteous squad is watching over us yet again.
ReplyDeleteNew topic please....
ReplyDeleteI'll play along...I say the guy who played George Jefferson (except he has passed away) would make a great Dr. White...lol!
ReplyDeleteWay too skinnny!
ReplyDeleteSherman Helmsley who payed George Jefferson is not dead. Out of touch!
ReplyDeleteWeesie (Jefferson) is the one who passed away.
ReplyDeleteIf you want to see George Jefferson, Go to Northwest and watch Larry Yarrell.
ReplyDeleteFoghorn Leghorn as Dr. White.
ReplyDelete'Kingfish' Stevens, always a scheming smoothie, would make a fine Gene White.
ReplyDeleteCathy Bates would be a good Jane Kendricks. There must be someone good to play the role of Sarah Bogard. Rosie O'Donnell would make a good Deb Leser.
ReplyDeleteTo the person way above saying this is not a good subject.
ReplyDeleteThis is no different that watching Saturday Night Live satires of the President and other politicaland world figures. They mock how they dress, hair, move their hands, etc.
In addition to the their political positions. So, this is a fair subject. As someone said, just like political cartoons. Last time I looked those cartoons have subjects with big hair, outlandish dress, mocking the way the real people are. Get over yourself.
Everyone has there own way to vent. If people want to do this as well as talk about other subjects than so be it.
I cannot see all that I wrote on this cell phone. So, before the grammar and spelling police show up. I am sorry. (Sad commentary that one state this as well. Instead of taking content everyone wants to break things down. Discussion boards were not meant for excellent grammar in my opinoin. They are ment for the exchange of ideas.)
George Jefferson/Sherman Hensley could play Willie Giles
ReplyDeleteThis insults/"jokes" aren't an exchange. It's one person pretending to be many. And it's important for teachers to publicly dissociate ourselves from you. Because you give the impression that your posts are from teachers. Most of them are not from teachers. I don't know a single teacher who doesn't cringe at the personal insults, namedropping, gossip, etc. that you post. It's not the equivalent of SNL or editorials. It's the equivalent of cyberbullying, which again, as teachers, we are all very aware of. And this isn't about ME getting over myself. This is my third post on this thread. The others that disagree with you are from other people. When multiple people post different opinions on an online forum, THAT is an exchange. Hope that helps :)
ReplyDeleteWhen you present yourself as a buffoon to the public, don't be shocked when you are regarded and treated as a buffoon. When Eugene struts around dressed like a lowlife pimp with too tight suits and all of his gold bling then he asking to be ridiculed. He deserves what he gets. He should hear what many of his administators say about him.
ReplyDeleteAnd notice that not all administrators are portrayed in a negative manner. There are still many fine administrators left in IPS, but they really need to lay low.
ReplyDeleteAnd it is just as likely that all the posts that decry this thread are from the same humorless person as that all the posts that find the humor are one person.
Your contention that this is cyber bullying really diminishes real cyber bullying, there is a bully operating in IPS right out in the open This is more like the French Resistance lobbing grenades at the Germans, a rather futile act of defiance...but still an act of defiance.It is known that it annoys the bully, and brings to light the hostile work environment.
If it annoys the bully, then I say let's continue! Even a simple little mosquito can disturb and annoy a man.
ReplyDeleteWhy would anyone spend any energy wanting to annoy someone, bully or night. Don't you have any positive energy you can direct toward something productive? Sure, venting and humor is healthy. But can we vent and joke without dragging any specific name through the mud? Isn't that what we tell kids? That you don't need to put down someone else in order to lift yourself up?
ReplyDeleteShould be "bully or not." I can't even blame it on texting; I have no idea what I was thinking ha ha!
ReplyDeleteThe biggest bully is Eugene. He has the power so that makes him the most dangerous.
ReplyDeleteHere is the problem with White, he only does a little research and makes decisions based on that factor. Research proves that poor kids lose ground during the summer, it also proves that well off kids actually gain ground over the summer. Now here is a kicker, in reality research proves that poor kids and well off kids gain the same amount during the school year. So based on a growth model we are not failing as teachers, the system isn't broken.
ReplyDeleteThe problem of the achievement gap lies in what happens when kids aren't in school. It has to do with parenting style.
If we go to year round schools, still the 180 school days, it won't really address what doesn't happen at home. This is so much more than a school problem, it is a community problem, and we need community to solve it...
so what does White do, he alienates community, families, and teacher.
The difference between what I have termed "rich and poor" is not economic, but has to do with parenting style and expectations, parents who are actively engaged in raising their kids, taking them places, doing things with them, encouraging them to read, signing them up for classes. The "poor" parents just let their kids be. Why aren't we, as a community, addressing parenting style and parenting support, welcoming parents into schools and supporting good parenting. WFYI has wonderful programs to support parenting, http://www.wfyi.org/parentingCounts.asp
but why aren't the commercials for this program run during Jerry Springer, instead they run on PBS children's programming, essentially preaching to the choir.
If you don't have time to read Outliers by Gadwell read pages 255-260 on the achievement gap. And where is ISTA and IEA, why aren't they defending teachers from this blame game.
I think you are kind of perverting the meaning behind outliers. Sure, parenting counts, but so does school. Gadwell's whole premise is that genius is based on hours, not talent. But if the hours at school are wasted, that's just as damaging as if the hours at home are wasted. I would love to see your source for your claim that poor kids and well-off kids advance the same during the school year. It certainly isn't from Outliers.
ReplyDeleteI agree with the above post. The problem with the poorest kids is that they are offed robbed on both fronts. They receive fewer hours of effective learning at school, and they receive fewer hours of effective learning at home. Most of the time, I don't think it's about good/bad teaching or good/bad parenting. The idea that wealthy parents love their kids most and are the best parents is bullshit, and I think most of us know that. But I don't think parents who lack formal education are able to recognize the kinds of things that will help a child "add hours" of expertise. Similarly, I don't think many teachers know how to differentiate instruction so that each child is getting the most out of his/her hours at school. There's much room for improvement at home and at school.
ReplyDeleteShould be "often robbed" instead of "offed robbed." I'm on a roll today!!
ReplyDelete"I would love to see your source for your claim that poor kids and well-off kids advance the same during the school year. It certainly isn't from Outliers."
ReplyDeleteGuess you didn't read the whole book.
page 257-258
“Here is a completely different story from the one suggested by the first table. The first set of test results made it look like lower income kids were somehow failing in the classroom. But here we see this plainly isn’t true. Look at the” total” column. Over the course of five years of elementary school, poor kids “out-learn” the wealthiest kids 189 points to 184 points. They lag behind middle class kids by only a modest amount, and in fact in one year second grade they learn more than the middle- or upper-class kids.
Next, lets see what happens if we look just at how reading scores change during summer vacations.
Do you see the difference? Look at the first column, which measures what happens over the summer after first grade. The wealthiest kids come back in September and their reading scores have jumped more than 15 points. The poorest kids come back from holiday and their reading scores have dropped almost 4 points. Poor kids may outlearn rich kids during the school year. But during the summer they fall far behind.
Now look at the last column, which totals up all the summer gains from first grade to fifth grade. The reading scores of the poor kids goes up by .26 points. When it comes to reading skills, poor kids learn nothing when school is not in session. The reading scores of the rich kids, by contrast, go up by a whopping 52.49 points. Virtually all of the advantage that wealthy students have over poor students is the result of differences in the way privileged kids learn when they are not in school.”
I guess not. I don't own the book, I checked it out from the library. Do you know the study from which he based his table? Also, your passage doesn't mention anything about middle school and high school, which is when the achievement gap worsens. These are the grades with which I have experience, and at least in IPS, it's a huge minority of students who are advancing a full grade level every year in school.
ReplyDeleteKarl L. Alexander, Doris R. Entwisle, and Linda Olson's study on the impact of summer vacation is called "Schools, Achievement, and Inequity: A Seasonal Perspective," published in Educational Evaluation and Policy Analysis 23, no 2 Summer 2001; pgs 171-191. The book also includes the tables referenced in the quote.
ReplyDeleteOther studies that I have read cite the socio-economic aspect of disengagement on inner city youth, which dramatically increases in about 6th grade.
Black American Students in an Affluent Suburb: A Study of Academic Disengagement by John U. Ogbu is an interesting read, here is an outline of the book.
http://findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_qa3752/is_200311/ai_n9313925/
When I read the book I saw it less as a book about race and more about a book about parenting traditions and expectations. Parents basically do what there parents did, and parents who have escaped poverty often use the parenting model of poverty. Sometimes you hear it in classrooms, this is what my parents did and I got an education and am successful, but the speaker often fails to note siblings who did not succeed.
This is why the first chapters in Outliers is so important, in terms of parents and what they do, their influence. Support "best practices" in parenting would yield results in the schools. But are our schools parent friendly, embracing, supportive...or hostile, bullying and judgmental?
I agree that our schools are not parent family. But I also think we have a lot of teachers who aren't parent-friendly or even student-friendly. Changing the culture of our schools is something we can control. Changing the culture outside of schools is not something we can control. But if we change the culture of the school, we have a much better chance of gaining respect from the community we serve than when we judge, bully, and otherwise treat them with hostility.
ReplyDeleteWhy aren't we replicating the schools that are working in the district? I just heard that CFI is opening another school in 2011. Why aren't we thinking about opening another Montessori? A math and science elementary school? A whatever has a proven track record with a competent leader! Come on, most of the schools that work in this district started as TEACHER led initiatives. If you are going to talk the talk, walk the walk!
ReplyDeleteThe school alone cannot change family dynamics, but the community can, imagine if the schools, churches, and other community organizations worked together, in an invitational manner to strengthen families. I once talked to a principal at an inner ring suburb school that served low income kids (the same socio-economic group that IPS serves and she said "My first job was to get parents through the front door, I do health fairs, exercise sessions, bingo, what ever it takes."
ReplyDeleteDuring her tenure at the school test scores, and attendance increased every year... dramatically. She left and they dropped.
Isn't that what they do at George Washington? Have test scores and attendance increased?
ReplyDeleteIDOE changed the website so we can no longer easily access which schools are improving or not. So much for transparency to the public.
ReplyDeleteIt is too late, Green Acres is the show about IPS, the Eddie Albert character is the teachers, the towns people are the students and their parents, and Zsa Zsa Gabor is the administration. Mr.Douglas has been in the wider world and knows how limited and ridiculous the attitudes and beliefs of the town folks are. Mrs. Douglas has been in the wider world, but goes along with the town folks and buys into their distorted view of the world. She wall papers over the ramshackle walls of the farm house, never addressing the underlying problems, pretends she can cook and continues to make "hots cakes" when no one eats them. And wouldn't Dr. White look great in one of those feathered boas?
ReplyDeletewow...we came close to having some worthwhile and educational discussion there for a minute - then we were transported to Green Acres. Have to say, that analogy made little sense...
ReplyDeleteDon't give Eugene any ideas or he will show up in a feathered boa.....to match his ruby red slippers.
ReplyDeleteYou obviously have never been in a conversation with a high school boy who is five feet one inch, isn't on the school basketball team, and insists his future career is as a center in the NBA. He will have no talk of a fall back career choice, and his parents agree. This makes as much sense as the towns folks believing Arnold Ziffle can read, is in the third grade, and loves Walter Cronkite. Much of what both students and parents believe is absurd.
ReplyDeleteWould you teach your children to respect someone who thought both you and your child were absurd. I wouldn't. Wouldn't you be better off convincing the child and the child's parents that being educated has value whether he goes to college or is drafted in the NBA. He'll have contracts he needs to understand, advertising deals he'll need to compare and contrast. He'll want a general knowledge of the world so that if he's asked something in an interview about a disaster or a political cause, he doesn't look like an idiot.
ReplyDeleteSee? We're all on the same side. We need to convince the kids and parents of that.
Who teaches their kids to respect anyone anymore? And how would kids know what was a thought in your head, never voiced to them?
ReplyDeleteKids and parents respect teachers when they know the teacher cares, they many not always agree, but they have to know that the caring is there.
There's 144 teachers at Broadripple High School and none of you care to monitor your bathrooms??!?!?!
ReplyDeletehttp://www.facebook.com/video/video.php?v=155092287863334
You're just as embarrassing as your students. All of you give IPS a bad name as well as the Magnet program. You should be ashamed of yourselves for tolerating this kind of behavior. No wonder Broadripple is full of ill-mannered students. I have more links like this from Broadripple High School if you need me to make a fool out of you even further.
PARENTS ARE WATCHING YOU!!!
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ReplyDeleteWill someone PLEASE step in and restore discipline at School #60 ??
ReplyDeleteI also can't see the video. However, I imagine the 144 teachers at Broad Ripple are busy actually teaching during the school day instead of doing potty patrol all day long. Take your concern up with the administrators and police officers who should be responsible for this.
ReplyDeleteBrandon Cosby's former girlfriend has "resigned" today from her new school. Of course, this was after a meeting she was summoned to downtown because she had her students "march" with her on Friday during the school day as she protested the administration at her new school by carrying signs outside of their offices referring to them as Nazis. This was apparently to protest the fact that they wrote her up for being insubordinate because AFTER another staff member politely refused Cher's request to take down her bulletin board so Cher could promote some activity she's doing on the board, she went ahead and ripped down the other staff member's display to put up her own. Of course, after being warned the first time that she was insubordinate, she went ahead and removed the staff member's display AGAIN after it had been put back up. So, since the administrators were apparently the ones being completely unreasonable in that situation, she helped her middle school-aged students make up posters referring to the administrators as Nazis and walked them down to the office during the school day to protest! She and Cosby deserve each other because they're both two of the most self-absorbed people I've ever known. Of course, now that she's officially released from IPS, it will be interesting to see what info comes to light about the affair...
ReplyDeleteThe protest involved the students standing up against abuse of power, which is something the teacher speaks adamantly about with her classes. The principal made the decision to take down a display that benefited the children because a senior staff member who's ideas are as outdated as her boards ran to him like a little school girl. She wanted the 17 foot display all to herself so that she could have plenty of room to staple random pieces of "information" up. Her ideas are as outdated as her bulletin boards but because BRHS subscribes to the theory that "because it has always been it always will be," she got her way. David Tuttle removed the board that she put up for no other reason than to reiterate the fact that he was in charge. Screw the kids. Screw what they needed in that moment. It was all about power.
ReplyDeleteFirst of all, I know this is you, Cher. You ALWAYS confuse "whose" vs. "who's" in all of your emails and other writings. We roll our eyes about it behind your back. Pretty irritating coming from a language arts teacher.
ReplyDeleteSecond of all, you had no right to take down another staff member's bulletin board no matter what you think about the content of it -- why do YOU get to judge the fact that your display was SO much more beneficial than anyone else's? How arrogant. You managed to skip over that little part in your version of the events -- when you asked if you could use that display...were told "No"...and went ahead and took it down anyway. That is as rude as can be.
Third of all, the ultimate abuse of power is to take a classroom full of middle school kids, encourage them to make protest signs referring to people as "Nazis" (which is just in unspeakably poor taste -- you're equating an administrator's decision to not let you put up a bulletin board display with the atrocities committed against Jews, homosexuals, and other disadvantaged groups????), and have them protest a decision that YOU didn't like. If a kid didn't particularly WANT to protest the administration, they still certainly felt pressured to do so by you (an authority figure) and their classmates? You're having middle school kids fight your battle for you -- whether or not they truly wanted to -- and you're complaining about OTHER people abusing power?
I wonder why Cher was disciplined at Shortridge and Brandon Cosby was not. What does that teach students when they see a situation handled like that? Don't be naive and think that the students didn't know as they were all talking about it and carrying petitions.
ReplyDeleteToo bad to lose a potentially great teacher because she didn't have the support and direction she needed from her administrators. Cher was caught up in "The Cosby Show" at Shortridge and was brainwashed by him and his agenda at that point. Then she was unwillingly transfered to Broad Ripple but faced a very different administration when she got there. She was set up for failure from the get go. The bottom line is that she had the potential to have a very positive and empowering impact on students' lives but was cut short because the administration at Broad Ripple stuck their heads in the sand, and in spite of being informed as to the issues surrounding Cher's behavior with the students, did nothing to rectify the ill-fated situation that was continually brought to them. Shame on them.
ReplyDeletewouldn't they have had to leave their offices and actually enter the instructional portion of the building to have done that? Up three flights of stairs?
ReplyDeleteTo the post directly above: "She was set up for failure"? Bullshit! She was transferred instead of fired last year. That was a SAVING of her ass rather than a SETUP for failure. Cher would be the first person to have a conniption if someone tore her stuff down, yet she has such an exaggerated sense of self that she felt perfectly fine taking down some other teacher's work. And then to drag kids into it? Ridiculous again. I have a middle school age child and I would be outraged if one of her teachers pulled a stunt like that. If she had been thinking with her brain rather than her ego she'd probably still have a job.
ReplyDeleteWow. She couldn't find another area in which to place a bulletin board?
ReplyDeleteTo "To the post directly above: "She was set up for failure"?": She was not fired last year because her BOSS was sexually harrassing her by HAVING SEX with her while she was his subordinate. You are an idiot. I don't know how she handled her self during this time, but her "superior" was 100% wrong for the entire time. Hear me? THE ENTIRE TIME!
ReplyDeleteI'm sure you think I'm wrong, so please, tell us all why it was okay for a principal to have an affair with a teacher.
Waiting to hear.
Two revealing statements by too big for his coat Pimp Gene:
ReplyDelete"I have yet to make a mistake" and Every program I've brought into IPS has been successful. I'm currently batting 1000."
Plan on reporting to school July 28th. Day one....The Dr. Gene imp Show at ech. Next day will be for room prep, unless our administrator chooses to have a meeting. Students will report August 1st. PIT will be August 31.
White emphasized that all families will have the time and opportunity to exposed their children to foreign destinations, citing the "low time" our breaks will allow families to travel. Must be nice.
Also, all staff and students will be instructed to schedule doctors' appointments and inservice classes during the intercessions.
In one paragraph, it inferred that the intervention weeks will permit remediation to studetns (ESPECIALLY athletes!)
Funny, funny stuff.
So let me get this right, she had sex with a principal, and it was consensual, she posted the details of her romantic life on facebook and shared this with students also on facebook, she got transferred and at her new school she tore down another teachers' bulletin board, and installed her own, without permission...then she involved students in a wildly inappropriate protest over a BULLETIN BOARD...So this woman was willing to give up her career over a bulletin board.
ReplyDeleteThis fight wasn't over academic freedom, or something that the school was unwilling to provide that students needed, something of consequence...it was over a BULLETIN BOARD ....Please...this woman needed some help...not an affair with a principal. And what principals have allowed this crazyiness to continue for years?
@The protest involved the students standing up against abuse of power. . .
ReplyDeleteBull! The sign-carrying protest came about because Cher did NOT get her way, plain and simple. For unknown reasons, she has a false sense of entitlement.
Now that Cher is gone...when will fat ass Brandon Cosby be gone? Oh, I forgot. He is an admnistrator and is entitled to have affairs with any of his employees he wishes.
ReplyDeleteA student of Cher's came to me in tears after the protest. She didn't want to be involved but didn't feel like she had a choice. She thought she was in trouble. She was really affected by it. Students shouldn't be made to feel like they have to go against a teacher to stay out of trouble.
ReplyDeleteIt would be an entirely different thing if the students had decided on their own to protest, but to be encouraged/led by a teacher over something as trivial as the use of a bulletin board is simply ridiculous. The War in Afghanistan, racism, sexism, poverty, inequity of educational opportunities yes...but a bulletin board?
ReplyDeleteShe isn't gone because of the affair with Cosby, she is gone because she felt a sense of superiority to others in the building, did not comply with directives, and involved students in her problems. Quite frankly she doesn't seem too stable, and had exhibited poor judgement in many aspects of her career, too bad she didn't get much needed guidance from a good administrator somewhere along the line.
ReplyDelete"I have yet to make a mistake" and Every program I've brought into IPS has been successful. I'm currently batting 1000."
ReplyDeleteand here is Michelle Rhee admitting she made mistakes, don't we all learn from our mistakes?
http://johnkingusa.blogs.cnn.com/2010/10/15/michelle-rhee-admits-many-mistakes/
Get a life....
ReplyDeleteTo the poster 10 posts up screeching "THE ENTIRE TIME": Cher posted stuff about her affair with Cosby AND many, many people knew the affair was going on; if she was being "sexually harassed" by her administrator having sex with her that is called RAPE and should have been reported to IMPD who would have taken her to get a rape kit done on her at Wishard. So no, while it is not okay for any administrator to be involved with a subordinate sexually, the relationship between Cosby and Cher was CONSENSUAL. Don't offend victims of sexual abuse like that. Her FB pictures show her embracing many people in hercute little pigtails (like a little girl -- hmmmm) so she obviously is not adverse to human touch, which many rape victims are. To say that her administrator sexually harassed her by having sex with her is bullshit. My DSMV-IVR diagnosis on her: borderline Personality with Narcissism
ReplyDelete"Even if the relationship itself is consensual, there is a risk that the superior may expose the company to a sexual harassment lawsuit if the relationship with a subordinate ends badly. Employees in a direct superior/subordinate professional relationship are often discouraged from forming personal relationships in order to avoid potential complications in the future."
ReplyDeletefrom the site of an attorney who specializes in labor law.
How dumb is Brandon Cosby to allow this to happen, and how dumb is IPS for not letting him go...
Some of you people are too stupid to know when you're being set up. Go, instigators, go!
ReplyDelete@"How dumb is..."
ReplyDeleteRhetorical questions, right?
It's a shame this teacher seems to thrive on drama (the affair, the bulletin board, her Facebook posts). The kids seem to like her. It still doesn't make it okay to drag them into her drama. It's probably just as well that she resigned. But like I said, it is a shame.
ReplyDeleteWe all don't know the details of her relationship with Mr. Cosby or what was involved in the decision to transfer her from Shortridge to Broad Ripple. I'm sure if she had a case to sue for sexual harassment, she would have done so.
ReplyDeleteThe kids don't like her. Where did you get that silly idea? They make fun of her and her silly outbursts. She is a spoiled brat.
ReplyDeleteA nameless, brainless principal of an out-of-control elementary is apparently intimidated by a particular teacher there. Too bad, because it's a colleague of the intimidating teacher, (and a close friend of a board member), that she should really be worried about.
ReplyDeletePlease see me tomorrow.
ReplyDeleteWhen hell freezes over.
ReplyDeleteCheck yourself. :)
ReplyDeleteWell lets see if Cher is not doing as she is told by her boss how can we think the kids shold listen to the teachers and other staff. She shold have been a good leader to the kids she was in charge of. Her ass was saved, and that is how she repaid the one who saved it? Cher got what was coming to her in the end. She was not set up she did all that shit at Ripple on her own NO one was there pushing her but, her. Broad Ripple is a wonderful school with a great staff. Dave Tuttle is one of the nicest guys I have ever worked with. Shame on you Cher for pulling this shit, the kids look to you as a role model now you have shown them they can have a lace of respect for adults. YOU were wrong everyone knows it so just go away and be quite no one cares you did your children wrong in haveing them resit authority. You should have been and adult and did what you were told by your boss, how would you have felt if your students would have done that to you? Anyone on here who say's she was set up your are just as stupid as she is, Cher did everyting to herslef alone no one made her act crazy.. Perhpas you should join her on the unemployment line. A school is to teach the kid more then book you should show them that NOONE is above showing respect to others. Frankly I am glad you are gone there is a lot less drama now and NOT ONE kid is sad you have left. Sorry to be so forward but those of you who are saying she was set up are wrong she was saved by Ms. Davis then turned around and smacked her in the face.
ReplyDeleteI totally agree, she was NOT set up. She was given a break for her stupidity at Shortridge and given a second chance at Broad Ripple...sorry Princess, but you blew it!
ReplyDeleteLet me approach this response in chronological order. 1. This IS Cher 2. I can hardly understand the first sentence. Not because I'm an idiot Princess, but because your grammar is horrific (even worse than mine). 3. No, I was not set-up. In fact, it is an insult to me for someone to make such a statement. I knew EXACTLY what I was doing. And I'm not as crazy as I lead people to believe I am. 4. I agree that Broad Ripple is a wonderful school for the kids, but half of the staff is not there for the children's best interest, and they don't even know it. 5. Dave Tuttle is very nice, but just because he is nice does not mean that he understands how he abused his power. 6. I can understand why you think that I've taught the children to have a (lack) of respect for adults. However; I don't see it that way. I see it as them being aware of ways they have been and will continue to be wronged by adults, that way they are not victimized by them any longer. 7. I taught them to advocate for themselves. 8. I will NOT be quiet. The problem is that people have been quiet for too long. When it comes to the kids I will make as much noise as possible, no matter what it costs me, as evident of my actions last Friday. 9. If I would have done what my boss had told me, I would have made sure that I tracked every absence of every child from minute one so that the absences would count “the way we would like for them to when it's time to get rid of them.” If I would have done what my boss had told me to, I would have stood rigid at my 3rd floor door on the first day, as opposed to greeting the students in the main entryway as they walked in, anxious to face their teachers for the first time in three months. If I would have done what my boss told me to do I would have “trained those kids.” 10. How would I feel if my students were to do this to me? I would felt proud that they had listened to my words when I encouraged them to advocate for themselves no matter what. 11. Again, I was NOT set up, but those who think I was are not stupid, they are misinformed. It's not necessary to say negative things about people. 12. The unemployment line is for people who are not employed. Don't go assuming. 13. Actually, I did teach them that no one is above showing respect for others. I think the problem here is that the children are finally realizing that they are included in “others.” 14. You are right, not ONE kid is upset that I am gone, but several kids are upset. My phone won't stop ringing and my fanclub page has grown by more than 10 percent in the last three days. 15. I would never slap Linda Davis in the face. I have respect for her on so many levels, even though I disagree with her on so many others.
ReplyDeleteSorry for any typos. It's late and I've had a few Blue Moons with ex co-workers . . . celebrating Cher's emancipation.
P.S.: Did anyone see those awesome scrimmage scores? 1st place in the building . . . not bad for a rebel Princess.
So where are you going to be teaching now? It seems you really enjoy your work with kids. Perhaps you will find a place where you will feel you can do that.
ReplyDeleteWow. Is it true Mr. Cosby said he never had sex with Cher?
ReplyDelete@Let me approach this response in chronological order.
ReplyDeleteCher, dear child, please grab hold of your emotions and your need to emote in writing on a public blog. You're young, you're obviously bright, you still have a future, and you should not jeopardize that potentially bright future through posting every thought that passes through your mind. Some things are best left unsaid.
Move on, child. Learn from this. Wisdom comes from learning from our mistakes, whether well intended mistakes or not. Just move on. Don't write about your feelings on a public blog anymore, child. Whatever you post using your name will be forever cached somewhere on the Internet. Be careful what you say, to whom you say it, and where you say it. Love ya. Peace, child. Stay strong, stay silent, OK?
Sincerely,
Older and wiser educator who has children older than you
Oh god, some of these post are just so stupid, this site is to have fun and release our frustration. If you don't like it get the fuck off. I'm tired off all these holiday wearing clothing teachers trying to defend IPS. Get a life and get off here. This is for fun. Go get laid or something!
ReplyDeleteWho died and made you king of anything? You don't get to say who belongs here and who doesn't. You don't get to determine the kinds of things that can be posted here and what can't. Yes, this blog was intended as something childish and mean-spirited and yet, many intelligent posters continue to come here and taint your nonsense with fruitful discussion. As a mentally unbalanced poster so eloquently said, "If you don't like it, get the fuck off." :)
ReplyDeleteWow who knew adults could be such teenagers? All othe F bombs here, first this is an open blog we can post what we want, so if you know this is something that will upset you don't read it
ReplyDeleteHaha mentally unbalanced, thats what IPS does to you. You are either a pill popper, smoke weed, or are an alcoholic. It you disagree then you clearly have depression and haven't seen medical help for it. It's the truth, don't try and deny it. If you deny it that is the first sign of a real problem. Best to us all! :)
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