What has the reaction been in your school to the state's announcement on Friday about taking over? The central office is telling one story but we need to get the truth out. Are people mad, disappointed, happy? Get the word out.
Well at BRHS we have a great administrator - Linda Davis and we will be led out of the dark shadows of Dr. Bennett. We had a wonderful email that told us that a full legal appeal was in the process and that we will overcome any "takeover". Linda was working from home and will check her files when she is able? Linda is a strong lady and I am tired of other teachers making fun of her weight, drinking, need for counseling, treating professional like dirt (if you were a professional then you would get the respect} and eating a whole box of Dove bars in three minutes. Most of the English teachers will be fired this year, they are the ones who fail the staff, and I know of one who is on top of the list, of course you are a licensed "French" teacher? BRHS should be proud of the goals we have reached at the cost of sending over 400 students to Arlington and Tech after ADM, so that we could keep all of our classes small and personal. Linda is smart and strong, we can lean on her for support.
I loved the fact that Dr. Bennett told the truth that Tindely Charter School picks their students and send way too many back to IPS, after ADM. Dr. Bennett stated in the Indianapolis Star that this will not happen with the take over companies, each one will be examined? See how many times have IPS told you that charter schools pick their students and are still failing, them send them back to their boundaries school after they have the state money? Smoke amd mirrors.
I am upset, teachers will have a huge cut in their incomes when they join the charter school, and charter schools don't have to account for their spending of taxpayers money. No one is watching the cash register? I know that my income will be cut in half, benefits - none, insurance (that is a joke), and a horrible 401K retirement. I am depressed and will retire asp to protect my retirement income.
No one is watching the cash register? Are you talking about IPS or a take-over group? I'm disappointed that IPS has allowed this to happen! Yes, allowed it to happen for a long, long time. Too many top-dog administrators with too many separate initiatives have left us all confused. This administrator directs us to do such and so, on the other hand, that administrator directs us to do the opposite. I'm just tired of it all.
Sounds to me like the 6-12/7-12 school idea was a failure. While graduations rates began to increase at the schools.
It put them in line for take-over. Once again and IPS plan backfires.
We have long known the problem has not been at the HS level but the middle school leve. Know those middle school practices have done in three schools that would have made progress enough to be taken off.
We also know realize with the closing of Gambold and those students being transfered to NW. Northwest has only postpone the eventual take-over. Unless IPS pulls the MS out sometime in the next six years.
Maybe IPS should start playing cat and mouse games with MS students pulling them in and out of HS.
We have wonderful administrators in all of our schools. Linda Davis is just the tip of the iceburg. There's also Jan Larson - a real sweetheart to work for. If you don't mind being called a closeted faggot, you will love him. IPS excels at developing the best administrators in the, umm, district. But the cream of the crop, like Linda Davis and Jan Larson, are simply bad people who don't care about kids.
I am surprised that more schools weren't in the same boat as IPS. I believe the scoring was done fairly after seeing that so many schools made it off of probation. I believe this also because the state does want to take over schools, control the inner money, lower teacher salaries, turn more public schools into charters etc. It is a real shame that we let the politicians in our state dictate and destroy
Has it ever occurred to anyone that one thing our students need is consistency? Changing schools, teachers, programs etc. every year is hurting our students. They are the pawns in the cat and mouse game between IPS administration and the Indiana DOE.
More programs, more changes, more money, more administration, and still more failure. When will people ever realize that public education is a hopeless failure that needs to be eliminated?
Linda Davis hurts the system and the school, but since she can't find her way out of the office she seldom hurts the students.
Jan Larson on the other hand does hurt kids on a daily basis. The man is a complete fool. Once I had a student who was being bullied, he called me to bring this student to the office, and I showed up with the kid. He had four of the tormentors there, and when I brought the kid in he put his arm on the kids shoulder and said to these thugs, "this is the kid you aren't to tease or bully, or I will suspend you." He couldn't have made things worse for the kid if he had painted a bullseye on the kids back and front. He has NO IDEA WHAT HE IS DOING.
How does he keep his job? He is mafia connected, a close friend of Suggs from the black mafia, and Bridgwater from the gay girls mafia. Neither group really cares about kids, they only care that members of their groups get as much as they can get.
Davis's policy decisions hurt kids. You don't have to leave your office or even get off of your butt to issue orders, scream over the PA, and write threatening e-mails to your staff. She's quite a dick tater. (Come on, spelling police!!! Come get me!)
To anonymous who posted : "Well at BRHS we have a great administrator - Linda Davis and we will be led out of the dark shadows of Dr. Bennett. We had a wonderful email that told us that a full legal appeal was in the process and that we will overcome any "takeover". Linda was working from home and will check her files when she is able? Linda is a strong lady and I am tired of other teachers making fun of her weight, drinking, need for counseling, treating professional like dirt (if you were a professional then you would get the respect} and eating a whole box of Dove bars in three minutes. Most of the English teachers will be fired this year, they are the ones who fail the staff, and I know of one who is on top of the list, of course you are a licensed "French" teacher? BRHS should be proud of the goals we have reached at the cost of sending over 400 students to Arlington and Tech after ADM, so that we could keep all of our classes small and personal. Linda is smart and strong, we can lean on her for support."
I would like to focus on the line: "if you were a professional then you would get the respect"
Larson was assigned to Manual because he is white, and somebody at the Ed Center thought he could relate to the white students and parents at Manual. Weird...I am white, and Larson and I have about as much in common as I have in common with Attila the Hun.
No kidding? I didn't think she could carry a tune in a bucket. She occasionally squeals like a pig, but that's another story and not for public consumption.
Again...sounds like sour notes from the "sad" teachers she fired while trying to improve the atmosphere at BRHS. Linda is an awesome Principal with awesome ideas. She will cut lose teachers who are negative.
So we are getting down to the demise of the blog, how sad. I've enjoyed the rantings and the dirt dugged. There's a lot of truths here even though it's been crudely penned. It's just like sitting in the teachers' lounge and the Walnut Street employees' break rooms.
"Linda is an awesome Principal with awesome ideas" No dear, no, no! You've messed up your spelling again. It's spelled a-w-f-u-l. not a-w-e-s-o-m-e. Get your spelling correct, or I'll have to put more red marks on your paper.
Whoa, she hired every teacher the first time, so then she had to fire these same teachers? I understand the "Princess from Shortridge" but that many teachers and student pushed out the door who were failing? Not sour notes just someone who knows the difference from a good principal and a drunk one?
Regarding the demise of the blog? IS anyone willing to step up and manage this or atart a new one? If the blogmaster would answer directly with some hints about how to manage this and maintain anonymity for all involved, it would be appreciated.
The blog itself has had great potential, and has potential for whistle blowing that has not been really touched upon.
Any idiot can start a blog on blogspot. You all don't want me to do it, because I wouldn't allow some of the lies and personal attacks to be posted. But if anyone else wants to start a blog, just do it before this one closes and post a link to the new blog.
Linda was forced to take the princess. By the way she was not fired by Linda. Linda also was forced to ask the science teacher to leave because she kept harassing the counselor. Another teacher had family problems and left on his own, another decided it was too much and resigned. Several retired. Get your facts straight before you post. Linda cannot forsee what teachers may/may not do. She is human, but has a wonderful heart where students/teachers are concerned.
"Linda was forced to take the princess. By the way she was not fired by Linda. Get your facts straight before you post. Linda cannot forsee what teachers may/may not do. She is human, but has a wonderful heart where students/teachers are concerned."
As they say, keep drinking that kool-aid...LOL.
Just goes to prove that old IPS adage, the poster can't breathe until Linda (name the bad administrator) farts.
Get your own facts straight. The science teacher left voluntarily because she was being harassed by the asst. principal. She was NOT harassing the counselor. (The counselor left anyway because she recognized what a tyrant Davis was.) The PE teacher was sent away to make room for Anthony Law - that same asst principal's brother. Who, by the way, was promised his position way before the surplussing occurred. (Gee - contract violation? I think so!) Another teacher was sent away because she stood up for teachers. Davis then attempted to punish yet another teacher by making her teach a subject she had never taught in 30+ years. Too bad that teacher is smart and knew Davis would do something like that and had that particular subject removed from her license. Joke was on you, Davis, on that one!
Bottom line: This is what Linda's "wonderful heart" has done. It has damaged many professional and has virtually destroyed countless childrens' attempts at academic success. She needs to be removed from her throne as soon as possible. She is harming children through her actions at Broad Ripple.
The French teacher is relocating. Read the Board Reports and I know her. All the attacks on Linda Davis are unwarranted, unprofessional and unnecessary. The gym teacher left for child-rearing purposes. Know her too!
The French teacher is leaving for family reasons, yes. But the "French" teacher (remember the quotations in the original post?) is an English teacher who also HAD a French license. Davis tried to make her teach French as punishment. The teacher had never taught HS French - ever - just had it on her license.
The PE teacher that was being referred to was the male PE teacher who was surplussed last spring to make room for the new football coach (Anthony Law) this fall. The female PE teacher's leaving had nothing to do with the surplussing or with Linda Davis. She is leaving for family reasons also.
So everything said so far still stands as true. You can try to defend Mrs. Davis all day long, but the truth is that she is a toxic presence in Broad Ripple.
She does hate lesbians though. You're right about that. Unless they are lesbians from downtown. She LOVES them because she can use them to get her way.
How much lesbianism is too much? Just curious how you figure this one out.
Do you take a poll and count the number of leabians? Do you line them up in the Gym and have some sort of a lesbo-cathelon to see who stays or goes? Or do you go with the tried and true gossip and inuendo?
As far as I'm concerned, there is just enough lesbianism going on at Broad Ripple. After all, we don't mind if you're straight as long as you act gay in public.
I hope everyone one is happy, I just heard the news that Linda Davis overdosed on one hundred "hot pockets", fifty Dove bars, twenty-five Snickers, drank up her supply, and then took two Dexatrim pills. We are hoping she will not suffer, but when we heard her chair breaking, we know. You folks are nasty, mean spirited, and the Queen will sting you along with her three friends at BRHS. Erin please make sure she get counseling.
If IPS suddenly became the best school in the USA, a whole lot of people would lose their high-paying consultant's jobs. Failing urban schools provide fine incomes for too many people. There are perks to keeping a school district failing. ______________________________________________
Agenda Item Details Meeting Jul 26, 2011 - Board Action Session; July 26, 2011; 7:00 P.M. Category General Superintendent's Recommendations - New Business Subject Best Practice (Jimmy Hill) 2011-2012 Contract Type Action Fiscal Impact Yes Dollar Amount $ 200,000.00 Budgeted Yes Budget Source Title I Grant and School Improvement Grant Recommended Action I recommend that the Board of School Commissioners authorize the Chief of Finance and Business sesrvices to enter into a contract with Best Practice (Jimmy Hill) to provide consulting services to four (4) schools listed during the period of August 2011 through 2012.
Presented By:
Dr. Willie Giles Dr. Li-Yen Johnson Mrs. Minetta Richardson Strategic Plan: Eliminating Achievement Gaps
TOPIC: Request permission to enter into a contract with Best Practice (Jimmy Hill), in the amount of $200,000 to provide professional development services to the following schools:Thomas Carr Howe Community High School (420), Emma Donnan Middle School (572), John Marshall Community High School (424), and Emmerich Manual High School (715).
Background Information: Jimmy Hill is an educational consultant that provides professional development services to schools. He will provide professional development services in the following areas:
Assist schools in collecting & analyzing real-time student achievement data. Design individual instructional plan for each of the targeted students based on results of the real-time scrimmages. Coordinate the work of the school improvement team coaches in supporting teachers in planning and designing critical interventions and the delivery of the two week instructional plans. Conduct professional development support sessions at each of the school improvement schools. Coordinate with parent liaisons at each school in designing critical parent workshops and parent support packets. Support and enhance structured teacher planning time at each school to make it more targeted and effective.
Administrative Consideration: Jimmy Hill is providing consulting services for school in the area of academic achievement.
***Superintendent’s Recommendation: I recommend that the Board of School Commissioners authorize the Chief of Finance and Business services to enter into a contract with Best Practice (Jimmy Hill) to provide consulting services to the schools named above during the period of August 2011 through August 2012. Total amount of the contract will not exceed $200,000. Funding will be provided by Title I Basic Grant and the School Improvement Turnaround Grant
The Distinguished Principles Group??? Who composes this unknown group? ___________________________________________
Agenda Item Details Meeting Jul 26, 2011 - Board Action Session; July 26, 2011; 7:00 P.M. Category General Superintendent's Recommendations - New Business Subject Distinguished Principles Group 2011-2012 Contract Type Action Fiscal Impact Yes Dollar Amount $ 100,000.00 Budgeted Yes Budget Source Title I Recommended Action I recommend that the Board of School Commissioners authorize the Chief of Finance and Business Services to contract with the Distinguished Principles Group to work with sixty (60) schools to provide technical assistance and support to help the schools develop and implement sound school improvement plans during the 2011-2012 school year.
Presented By: Dr. Willie Giles Dr. LiYen Johnson Minetta Richardson Strategic Plan: Everyone Can Learn
TOPIC: Request permission to contract with the Distinguished Principles Group in the amount of $100,000 to provide technical assistance and support to help the schools develop and implement sound school improvement plans.
Background Information: The Distinguished Principles Group will provide (60) schools from Indianapolis Public Schools with technical support to help the schools develop and implement sound school improvement plans that:
Meet the improvement planning requirements of Indiana Public Law 221, Title I School wide, and No Child Left Behind.
Can be used as part of district accreditation with North Central Association.
The Distinguished Principles Group will help building –level Steering Teams
Create an organizational structure that promotes collegiality, self study, and continuous improvement.
Develop teacher-leaders among the school staff.
Implement a vision based and data-driven improvement process.
Address resistance that is natural to any change initiative.
Administrative Consideration: The Distinguished Principles Group will work with the (60) schools to assist in developing/revising and implementing sound school improvement plans.
***Superintendent’s Recommendation: I recommend that the Board of School Commissioners authorize the Chief of Finance and Business Services to contract with The Distinguished Principles Group to work with (60) schools to provide technical assistance and support to help the schools develop and implement sound school improvement plans during the 2011-2012 school year for an amount not to exceed $100,000 to be paid from Title I funds.
"I can't believe someone doesn't know who the bitter person is that is posting about Davis. What goes around comes around and you will get yours."
It isn't one person, it is about 75% of the faculty. People are simply smart enough to keep their mouths shut, they've seen how vindictive Linda can be. The remaining 25% of the faculty are extremely naive about Linda and the ways of the world.
"The Distinguished Principles Group" Generally businesses are required to register with the state and fill out a "DBA" Doing Business As Certificate. There is no business registered in the state of Indiana with this name. https://secure.in.gov/sos/online_corps/name_search.aspx
A Google search comes up with nothing under this name.
What do you want to bet that it is Bridgwater and Denny still looking to leach off of IPS?
PLEASE IPS BOARD DO NOT APPROVE THIS UNTIL YOU FIND OUT WHO IS BEHIND THIS COMPANY.
The Board Agenda for tonight only mentions one teacher from Broad Ripple, and that is a PE teacher who's taking a leave of absence for child rearing. No mention of an English teacher/French teacher.
Entity Legal Name: DISTINGUISHED PRINCIPLES GROUP, INC.
Entity Address: 1344 S FOX PAW DR, NEW PALESTINE, IN 46163
General Entity Information:
Control Number: 2009061500312 Status: Active Entity Type: For-Profit Domestic Corporation
Entity Creation Date: 6/12/2009 Entity Date to Expire: Entity Inactive Date:
This entity is current with Business Entity Report(s).
There are no other names on file for this Entity.
Registered Agent(name, address, city , state , zip): MARIBETH GUHL 1344 S FOX PAW DR NEW PALESTINE , IN 46163
Principals(name, address, city, state, zip - when provided) MARIBETH GUHL Incorporator 1344 S FOX PAW DR NEW PALESTINE , IN 46163
Maribeth Guhl President 1344 S FOX PAW DR New Palestine , IN 46163 ______________________________________________
Retirement Information from Board Agenda 2009
Elementary Education Division
Maribeth S. Guhl
Director of Elementary Education
07-01-09
________________________________________
Question answered about The Distinguished Principles group, a for-profit corporation. Corporation was formed/incorporated in 6/09, about one month before former IPS Director of Elementary Education retired.
The English/French teacher is not moving and never was. She was going to be forced to teach French even though she had been teaching English for the past 30 years and had never taught HS French ever. That was her punishment for being vocal about what is right. But it didn't work. Knowing how Davis works, the teacher took French off of her license. She gets to continue to teach English until she retires. Which better be soon since she has made the boss mad. Let's all keep an eye on this one and see how vindictive that principal can be.
I know. You're right. She was an FTL back in the Small School days and beyond. She came back to the classroom a couple of years ago. Davis went after her this year but couldn't do much because there was no basis for anything. The woman is a great teacher. That's why Davis tried to make the teacher teach French as punishment for speaking up. The whole school heard about it. Davis was a laughing stock for quite a while and much of the staff wanted to give that "French" teacher a medal for outsmarting the vindictive Queen.
That 75% someone talked about a little bit ago is probably more like 90%. There are only a few people with their heads still in the sand. Or up someone's ....
I just saw the comments about too much lesbianism at Broad Ripple. I agree! We should administer a lesbo-test to the entire faculty and staff to identify these people. After all, standardized testing is all the rage these days. We should ID these people before we have the lesbocathelon. What kind of questions could we have on the test?
1. Do you own any flannel shirts? 2. Is your hair longer than your shoulders? 3. Do you attend Fever games on a regular basis? 4. Have you ever coached a sport? 5. Do you wear or have you ever in your life worn a fanny-pack? 6. Do you think "The L-Word" is realistic? 7. Is your best friend a gay man? 8. Do your students often call you "Mr." instead or "Mrs."? 9. Do you have multiple Democrat stickers on your car? 10. Have you ever felt you needed to shut your damn mouth about yourself, your beliefs, or your ideals? (I'm sorry, I threw a serious one in there.)
Bonus Question:
11. Are you a 40-something year old female with no children and a "room-mate"?
'Fess up out there! I can't wait for the lesbo-games and lesbo-awards!
"That 75% someone talked about a little bit ago is probably more like 90%. There are only a few people with their heads still in the sand. Or up someone's ...."
Remember Spanky and Alfalfa, and the Our Gang Movies....the he man women haters club....well Ripple has a similar secret club....
Confused. He man women haters club? What? We need a little clarification here!
You're just too young, sorry....http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Our_Gang the pledge of the club Everyone raise your right hand ... No, your other right hand. . . I, Stymie Member in good standing of the He-man Woman Haters Club do solemnly swear to be a heman and hate women and not play withthem or talk to them unless I have to.
At Ripple it is more like the Real Teacher Administrator Haters Club. Everyone raise your right hand, no your other right hand, I (your name) a member in good standing of Real Teacher/ Administrator Haters Club do solemnly swear to be a keep teaching and we don't play with them or talk to them unless we have to.
Please send us some decent administrators, so we can disband this club.
It has nothing to do with gender. It is about purpose. Real teachers are there to support students and prepare them for the future. The administration is there because they are on some sort of ego driven power trip, instead of being there to support quality teaching and education. If we don't keep poking fun at them we'd have to cry.
@If we don't keep poking fun at them we'd have to cry.
As Jimmy Buffett sings, "If we couldn't laugh, we would all go insane."
And, here's to Linda Davis's inner Jimmy Buffett, "I was hungry and went out for a bite, Ran into a chum with a bottle of rum, And we wound up drinkin' all night."
Frankly, there's not a thing wrong with Linda Davis; she's just too much candy for most people's dimes. I like the girl.
"I believe this also because the state does want to take over schools, control the inner money, lower teacher salaries, turn more public schools into charters etc. It is a real shame that we let the politicians in our state dictate and destroy."
I blame the teachers in a profession dominated by women who voted based on what their husbands told them or their church. We got the old bait and switch. No job creation but plenty of social legislation. Fear not. There will be other elections and teachers need to get involved.
Ah , come on now ;-) You know this state is mired in 19th century ideals and Old Republicanism. Down south they would call these folks Scalawags. When you have someone like Dan Burton getting elected for life there is something rotten to the core. If Pence is elected, we might as well bail out and leave the state. That boy makes Mitch look like a liberal.
IPS needs to be taken over. The crookedness has become too much. Maribeth Guhl is a friend of Liyen Johnson. Jimmy Hill is too. We spend lots of money on friends. I also want to know more about Stan Law's relative. Can we hire when we laid off many teachers? Good thing Eugene White changed the nepotism policy when he did. Now everyone can take advantage.
"I can't believe someone doesn't know who the bitter person is that is posting about Davis. What goes around comes around and you will get yours."
Do you really think you know who the bitter person is? I doubt it! If you think it is the English teacher I have news for you it is not. She has not been on this blog since the end of the school year. She has been told what has been written about her in these blogs. She doesn't feel the need to defend herself or speak out against certain administrators on this blog. She has made her point the correct way. It is well documented and I dare say that she "will not get hers in the end" as it would be pretty foolish for anyone to go after her after the fact. I believe she would have a very strong case in a court of law. Enough said....
Well at BRHS we have a great administrator - Linda Davis and we will be led out of the dark shadows of Dr. Bennett. We had a wonderful email that told us that a full legal appeal was in the process and that we will overcome any "takeover". Linda was working from home and will check her files when she is able? Linda is a strong lady and I am tired of other teachers making fun of her weight, drinking, need for counseling, treating professional like dirt (if you were a professional then you would get the respect} and eating a whole box of Dove bars in three minutes. Most of the English teachers will be fired this year, they are the ones who fail the staff, and I know of one who is on top of the list, of course you are a licensed "French" teacher? BRHS should be proud of the goals we have reached at the cost of sending over 400 students to Arlington and Tech after ADM, so that we could keep all of our classes small and personal. Linda is smart and strong, we can lean on her for support.
ReplyDeleteI loved the fact that Dr. Bennett told the truth that Tindely Charter School picks their students and send way too many back to IPS, after ADM. Dr. Bennett stated in the Indianapolis Star that this will not happen with the take over companies, each one will be examined? See how many times have IPS told you that charter schools pick their students and are still failing, them send them back to their boundaries school after they have the state money? Smoke amd mirrors.
ReplyDeleteI am upset, teachers will have a huge cut in their incomes when they join the charter school, and charter schools don't have to account for their spending of taxpayers money. No one is watching the cash register? I know that my income will be cut in half, benefits - none, insurance (that is a joke), and a horrible 401K retirement. I am depressed and will retire asp to protect my retirement income.
ReplyDeleteNo one is watching the cash register? Are you talking about IPS or a take-over group? I'm disappointed that IPS has allowed this to happen! Yes, allowed it to happen for a long, long time. Too many top-dog administrators with too many separate initiatives have left us all confused. This administrator directs us to do such and so, on the other hand, that administrator directs us to do the opposite. I'm just tired of it all.
ReplyDeleteSounds to me like the 6-12/7-12 school idea was a failure. While graduations rates began to increase at the schools.
ReplyDeleteIt put them in line for take-over. Once again and IPS plan backfires.
We have long known the problem has not been at the HS level but the middle school leve. Know those middle school practices have done in three schools that would have made progress enough to be taken off.
We also know realize with the closing of Gambold and those students being transfered to NW. Northwest has only postpone the eventual take-over. Unless IPS pulls the MS out sometime in the next six years.
Maybe IPS should start playing cat and mouse games with MS students pulling them in and out of HS.
To all staff:
ReplyDeleteShake it off and step up. This works for most jackasses stuck in a hole. Look how much dirt I've plowed through, yet I'm still in charge!
Remember, students first.
Love,
Gene
We have wonderful administrators in all of our schools. Linda Davis is just the tip of the iceburg. There's also Jan Larson - a real sweetheart to work for. If you don't mind being called a closeted faggot, you will love him. IPS excels at developing the best administrators in the, umm, district. But the cream of the crop, like Linda Davis and Jan Larson, are simply bad people who don't care about kids.
ReplyDeleteI am surprised that more schools weren't in the same boat as IPS. I believe the scoring was done fairly after seeing that so many schools made it off of probation. I believe this also because the state does want to take over schools, control the inner money, lower teacher salaries, turn more public schools into charters etc.
ReplyDeleteIt is a real shame that we let the politicians in our state dictate and destroy
Speaking of Jan Larson, where will he be assigned this coming year? He is a total a$$.
ReplyDeleteHas it ever occurred to anyone that one thing our students need is consistency? Changing schools, teachers, programs etc. every year is hurting our students. They are the pawns in the cat and mouse game between IPS administration and the Indiana DOE.
ReplyDeleteMore programs, more changes, more money, more administration, and still more failure. When will people ever realize that public education is a hopeless failure that needs to be eliminated?
ReplyDeleteLinda Davis hurts the system and the school, but since she can't find her way out of the office she seldom hurts the students.
ReplyDeleteJan Larson on the other hand does hurt kids on a daily basis. The man is a complete fool. Once I had a student who was being bullied, he called me to bring this student to the office, and I showed up with the kid. He had four of the tormentors there, and when I brought the kid in he put his arm on the kids shoulder and said to these thugs, "this is the kid you aren't to tease or bully, or I will suspend you." He couldn't have made things worse for the kid if he had painted a bullseye on the kids back and front. He has NO IDEA WHAT HE IS DOING.
How does he keep his job? He is mafia connected, a close friend of Suggs from the black mafia, and Bridgwater from the gay girls mafia. Neither group really cares about kids, they only care that members of their groups get as much as they can get.
Davis's policy decisions hurt kids. You don't have to leave your office or even get off of your butt to issue orders, scream over the PA, and write threatening e-mails to your staff. She's quite a dick tater.
ReplyDelete(Come on, spelling police!!! Come get me!)
DID ANY OF YOU HEAR WHAT DR. BENNETT SAID ?
ReplyDeleteWHAT HE SAID WAS " INTERVENTION DOES NOT NECESSARILY MEAN STATE TAKEOVER."
Go back and listen again!
Larson is at Manual. Rumor has it he was born a woman. Hilarious!!!
ReplyDeleteI've always thought of him as a pussy.
ReplyDeleteTo anonymous who posted : "Well at BRHS we have a great administrator - Linda Davis and we will be led out of the dark shadows of Dr. Bennett. We had a wonderful email that told us that a full legal appeal was in the process and that we will overcome any "takeover". Linda was working from home and will check her files when she is able? Linda is a strong lady and I am tired of other teachers making fun of her weight, drinking, need for counseling, treating professional like dirt (if you were a professional then you would get the respect} and eating a whole box of Dove bars in three minutes. Most of the English teachers will be fired this year, they are the ones who fail the staff, and I know of one who is on top of the list, of course you are a licensed "French" teacher? BRHS should be proud of the goals we have reached at the cost of sending over 400 students to Arlington and Tech after ADM, so that we could keep all of our classes small and personal. Linda is smart and strong, we can lean on her for support."
ReplyDeleteI would like to focus on the line: "if you were a professional then you would get the respect"
........really?
Larson was assigned to Manual because he is white, and somebody at the Ed Center thought he could relate to the white students and parents at Manual. Weird...I am white, and Larson and I have about as much in common as I have in common with Attila the Hun.
ReplyDeleteWow, we have managed to malign women, the transgendered and whites by comparing them to Larson.
ReplyDeleteThe Bottom Line: The Fat Lady sings....!
ReplyDelete"The Bottom Line: The Fat Lady sings....!"
ReplyDeleteNo kidding? I didn't think she could carry a tune in a bucket. She occasionally squeals like a pig, but that's another story and not for public consumption.
Again...sounds like sour notes from the "sad" teachers she fired while trying to improve the atmosphere at BRHS. Linda is an awesome Principal with awesome ideas. She will cut lose teachers who are negative.
ReplyDeleteSo we are getting down to the demise of the blog, how sad. I've enjoyed the rantings and the dirt dugged.
ReplyDeleteThere's a lot of truths here even though it's been crudely penned.
It's just like sitting in the teachers' lounge and the Walnut Street employees' break rooms.
"Linda is an awesome Principal with awesome ideas"
ReplyDeleteNo dear, no, no! You've messed up your spelling again. It's spelled a-w-f-u-l. not a-w-e-s-o-m-e. Get your spelling correct, or I'll have to put more red marks on your paper.
Whoa, she hired every teacher the first time, so then she had to fire these same teachers? I understand the "Princess from Shortridge" but that many teachers and student pushed out the door who were failing? Not sour notes just someone who knows the difference from a good principal and a drunk one?
ReplyDeleteRegarding the demise of the blog? IS anyone willing to step up and manage this or atart a new one? If the blogmaster would answer directly with some hints about how to manage this and maintain anonymity for all involved, it would be appreciated.
ReplyDeleteThe blog itself has had great potential, and has potential for whistle blowing that has not been really touched upon.
This needs to be continued.
Any idiot can start a blog on blogspot. You all don't want me to do it, because I wouldn't allow some of the lies and personal attacks to be posted. But if anyone else wants to start a blog, just do it before this one closes and post a link to the new blog.
ReplyDeleteLinda is a principal without principles.
ReplyDeleteYikes. These posts are really showing how professional we all are. This dialogue leaves an acidic taste in the back of my throat.
ReplyDeleteLinda was forced to take the princess. By the way she was not fired by Linda. Linda also was forced to ask the science teacher to leave because she kept harassing the counselor. Another teacher had family problems and left on his own, another decided it was too much and resigned. Several retired. Get your facts straight before you post. Linda cannot forsee what teachers may/may not do. She is human, but has a wonderful heart where students/teachers are concerned.
ReplyDelete"Linda was forced to take the princess. By the way she was not fired by Linda. Get your facts straight before you post. Linda cannot forsee what teachers may/may not do. She is human, but has a wonderful heart where students/teachers are concerned."
ReplyDeleteAs they say, keep drinking that kool-aid...LOL.
Just goes to prove that old IPS adage, the poster can't breathe until Linda (name the bad administrator) farts.
the poster can't breathe until Linda (name the bad administrator) farts. That sounds like Pat Elff can't breathe until Rambo farts.
ReplyDeleteTo: "Linda was forced to take the princess...."
ReplyDeleteGet your own facts straight. The science teacher left voluntarily because she was being harassed by the asst. principal. She was NOT harassing the counselor. (The counselor left anyway because she recognized what a tyrant Davis was.) The PE teacher was sent away to make room for Anthony Law - that same asst principal's brother. Who, by the way, was promised his position way before the surplussing occurred. (Gee - contract violation? I think so!) Another teacher was sent away because she stood up for teachers. Davis then attempted to punish yet another teacher by making her teach a subject she had never taught in 30+ years. Too bad that teacher is smart and knew Davis would do something like that and had that particular subject removed from her license. Joke was on you, Davis, on that one!
Bottom line: This is what Linda's "wonderful heart" has done. It has damaged many professional and has virtually destroyed countless childrens' attempts at academic success. She needs to be removed from her throne as soon as possible. She is harming children through her actions at Broad Ripple.
God, I was talking about the freak from Shortridge who was having sex with Crosby. And why did the French teacher leave?
ReplyDeleteThe French teacher is relocating. Read the Board Reports and I know her. All the attacks on Linda Davis are unwarranted, unprofessional and unnecessary. The gym teacher left for child-rearing purposes. Know her too!
ReplyDeleteOMG! Twisted is all I can say...twisted! Lots of lesbianism going on BRHS...Linda needed to clean house.
ReplyDeleteLesnianism? Both women are married idiot!! BTW, to men!
ReplyDeleteThat should have been spelled ' lesbianism.'
ReplyDeleteI was too busy laughing at the post below:
OMG! Twisted is all I can say...twisted
those lesbians are married to men who like men you idiot! They need to come out of the closet cause everyone already see them as a couple!
ReplyDeleteYou're not following this correctly.
ReplyDeleteThe French teacher is leaving for family reasons, yes. But the "French" teacher (remember the quotations in the original post?) is an English teacher who also HAD a French license. Davis tried to make her teach French as punishment. The teacher had never taught HS French - ever - just had it on her license.
The PE teacher that was being referred to was the male PE teacher who was surplussed last spring to make room for the new football coach (Anthony Law) this fall. The female PE teacher's leaving had nothing to do with the surplussing or with Linda Davis. She is leaving for family reasons also.
So everything said so far still stands as true. You can try to defend Mrs. Davis all day long, but the truth is that she is a toxic presence in Broad Ripple.
She does hate lesbians though. You're right about that. Unless they are lesbians from downtown. She LOVES them because she can use them to get her way.
How much lesbianism is too much? Just curious how you figure this one out.
ReplyDeleteDo you take a poll and count the number of leabians? Do you line them up in the Gym and have some sort of a lesbo-cathelon to see who stays or goes? Or do you go with the tried and true gossip and inuendo?
As far as I'm concerned, there is just enough lesbianism going on at Broad Ripple. After all, we don't mind if you're straight as long as you act gay in public.
LOL!!
ReplyDeleteI hope everyone one is happy, I just heard the news that Linda Davis overdosed on one hundred "hot pockets", fifty Dove bars, twenty-five Snickers, drank up her supply, and then took two Dexatrim pills. We are hoping she will not suffer, but when we heard her chair breaking, we know. You folks are nasty, mean spirited, and the Queen will sting you along with her three friends at BRHS. Erin please make sure she get counseling.
ReplyDeleteGrammar police I put a couple in that last note, put on your reading glasses and caught me if you can? LOL
ReplyDeleteI can't believe someone doesn't know who the bitter person is that is posting about Davis. What goes around comes around and you will get yours.
ReplyDeleteIf IPS suddenly became the best school in the USA, a whole lot of people would lose their high-paying consultant's jobs. Failing urban schools provide fine incomes for too many people. There are perks to keeping a school district failing.
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Agenda Item Details
Meeting Jul 26, 2011 - Board Action Session; July 26, 2011; 7:00 P.M. Category General Superintendent's Recommendations - New Business Subject Best Practice (Jimmy Hill) 2011-2012 Contract Type Action Fiscal Impact Yes Dollar Amount $ 200,000.00 Budgeted Yes Budget Source Title I Grant and School Improvement Grant Recommended Action I recommend that the Board of School Commissioners authorize the Chief of Finance and Business sesrvices to enter into a contract with Best Practice (Jimmy Hill) to provide consulting services to four (4) schools listed during the period of August 2011 through 2012.
Presented By:
Dr. Willie Giles
Dr. Li-Yen Johnson
Mrs. Minetta Richardson
Strategic Plan: Eliminating Achievement Gaps
TOPIC: Request permission to enter into a contract with Best Practice (Jimmy Hill), in the amount of $200,000 to provide professional development services to the following schools:Thomas Carr Howe Community High School (420), Emma Donnan Middle School (572), John Marshall Community High School (424), and Emmerich Manual High School (715).
Background Information:
Jimmy Hill is an educational consultant that provides professional development services to schools. He will provide professional development services in the following areas:
Assist schools in collecting & analyzing real-time student achievement data.
Design individual instructional plan for each of the targeted students based on results of the real-time scrimmages.
Coordinate the work of the school improvement team coaches in supporting teachers in planning and designing critical interventions and the delivery of the two week instructional plans.
Conduct professional development support sessions at each of the school improvement schools.
Coordinate with parent liaisons at each school in designing critical parent workshops and parent support packets.
Support and enhance structured teacher planning time at each school to make it more targeted and effective.
Administrative Consideration:
Jimmy Hill is providing consulting services for school in the area of academic achievement.
***Superintendent’s Recommendation:
I recommend that the Board of School Commissioners authorize the Chief of Finance and Business services to enter into a contract with Best Practice (Jimmy Hill) to provide consulting services to the schools named above during the period of August 2011 through August 2012. Total amount of the contract will not exceed $200,000. Funding will be provided by Title I Basic Grant and the School Improvement Turnaround Grant
The Distinguished Principles Group??? Who composes this unknown group?
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Agenda Item Details
Meeting Jul 26, 2011 - Board Action Session; July 26, 2011; 7:00 P.M. Category General Superintendent's Recommendations - New Business Subject Distinguished Principles Group 2011-2012 Contract Type Action Fiscal Impact Yes Dollar Amount $ 100,000.00 Budgeted Yes Budget Source Title I Recommended Action I recommend that the Board of School Commissioners authorize the Chief of Finance and Business Services to contract with the Distinguished Principles Group to work with sixty (60) schools to provide technical assistance and support to help the schools develop and implement sound school improvement plans during the 2011-2012 school year.
Presented By:
Dr. Willie Giles
Dr. LiYen Johnson
Minetta Richardson
Strategic Plan:
Everyone Can Learn
TOPIC: Request permission to contract with the Distinguished Principles Group in the amount of $100,000 to provide technical assistance and support to help the schools develop and implement sound school improvement plans.
Background Information:
The Distinguished Principles Group will provide (60) schools from Indianapolis Public Schools with technical support to help the schools develop and implement sound school improvement plans that:
Meet the improvement planning requirements of Indiana Public Law 221, Title I School wide, and No Child Left Behind.
Can be used as part of district accreditation with North Central Association.
The Distinguished Principles Group will help building –level Steering Teams
Create an organizational structure that promotes collegiality, self study, and continuous improvement.
Develop teacher-leaders among the school staff.
Implement a vision based and data-driven improvement process.
Address resistance that is natural to any change initiative.
Administrative Consideration:
The Distinguished Principles Group will work with the (60) schools to assist in developing/revising and implementing sound school improvement plans.
***Superintendent’s Recommendation:
I recommend that the Board of School Commissioners authorize the Chief of Finance and Business Services to contract with The Distinguished Principles Group to work with (60) schools to provide technical assistance and support to help the schools develop and implement sound school improvement plans during the 2011-2012 school year for an amount not to exceed $100,000 to be paid from Title I funds.
"I can't believe someone doesn't know who the bitter person is that is posting about Davis. What goes around comes around and you will get yours."
ReplyDeleteIt isn't one person, it is about 75% of the faculty. People are simply smart enough to keep their mouths shut, they've seen how vindictive Linda can be. The remaining 25% of the faculty are extremely naive about Linda and the ways of the world.
"The Distinguished Principles Group" Generally businesses are required to register with the state and fill out a "DBA" Doing Business As Certificate. There is no business registered in the state of Indiana with this name. https://secure.in.gov/sos/online_corps/name_search.aspx
ReplyDeleteA Google search comes up with nothing under this name.
What do you want to bet that it is Bridgwater and Denny still looking to leach off of IPS?
PLEASE IPS BOARD DO NOT APPROVE THIS UNTIL YOU FIND OUT WHO IS BEHIND THIS COMPANY.
The Board Agenda for tonight only mentions one teacher from Broad Ripple, and that is a PE teacher who's taking a leave of absence for child rearing. No mention of an English teacher/French teacher.
ReplyDeleteEntity Legal Name:
ReplyDeleteDISTINGUISHED PRINCIPLES GROUP, INC.
Entity Address:
1344 S FOX PAW DR, NEW PALESTINE, IN 46163
General Entity Information:
Control Number: 2009061500312
Status: Active
Entity Type: For-Profit Domestic Corporation
Entity Creation Date: 6/12/2009
Entity Date to Expire:
Entity Inactive Date:
This entity is current with Business Entity Report(s).
There are no other names on file for this Entity.
Registered Agent(name, address, city , state , zip):
MARIBETH GUHL
1344 S FOX PAW DR
NEW PALESTINE , IN 46163
Principals(name, address, city, state, zip - when provided)
MARIBETH GUHL
Incorporator
1344 S FOX PAW DR
NEW PALESTINE , IN 46163
Maribeth Guhl
President
1344 S FOX PAW DR
New Palestine , IN 46163
______________________________________________
Retirement Information from Board Agenda 2009
Elementary Education
Division
Maribeth S.
Guhl
Director of
Elementary
Education
07-01-09
________________________________________
Question answered about The Distinguished Principles group, a for-profit corporation. Corporation was formed/incorporated in 6/09, about one month before former IPS Director of Elementary Education retired.
Something is tawdry and tacky about this deal!!!
The English/French teacher is not moving and never was. She was going to be forced to teach French even though she had been teaching English for the past 30 years and had never taught HS French ever. That was her punishment for being vocal about what is right. But it didn't work. Knowing how Davis works, the teacher took French off of her license. She gets to continue to teach English until she retires. Which better be soon since she has made the boss mad. Let's all keep an eye on this one and see how vindictive that principal can be.
ReplyDeleteDid this English teacher used to be an Instructional Coach?
ReplyDeleteCould be. I think that might be true. Anyone else know?
ReplyDeleteI know. You're right. She was an FTL back in the Small School days and beyond. She came back to the classroom a couple of years ago.
ReplyDeleteDavis went after her this year but couldn't do much because there was no basis for anything. The woman is a great teacher. That's why Davis tried to make the teacher teach French as punishment for speaking up. The whole school heard about it. Davis was a laughing stock for quite a while and much of the staff wanted to give that "French" teacher a medal for outsmarting the vindictive Queen.
That 75% someone talked about a little bit ago is probably more like 90%. There are only a few people with their heads still in the sand. Or up someone's ....
I just saw the comments about too much lesbianism at Broad Ripple. I agree! We should administer a lesbo-test to the entire faculty and staff to identify these people. After all, standardized testing is all the rage these days. We should ID these people before we have the lesbocathelon. What kind of questions could we have on the test?
ReplyDelete1. Do you own any flannel shirts?
2. Is your hair longer than your shoulders?
3. Do you attend Fever games on a regular basis?
4. Have you ever coached a sport?
5. Do you wear or have you ever in your life worn a fanny-pack?
6. Do you think "The L-Word" is realistic?
7. Is your best friend a gay man?
8. Do your students often call you "Mr." instead or "Mrs."?
9. Do you have multiple Democrat stickers on your car?
10. Have you ever felt you needed to shut your damn mouth about yourself, your beliefs, or your ideals?
(I'm sorry, I threw a serious one in there.)
Bonus Question:
11. Are you a 40-something year old female with no children and a "room-mate"?
'Fess up out there! I can't wait for the lesbo-games and lesbo-awards!
Is that French teacher one of them?
ReplyDeleteHaha! I'm one of her good friends. She is not, but one of our buddies is. This is fun. Any more test questions?
ReplyDelete"That 75% someone talked about a little bit ago is probably more like 90%. There are only a few people with their heads still in the sand. Or up someone's ...."
ReplyDeleteRemember Spanky and Alfalfa, and the Our Gang Movies....the he man women haters club....well Ripple has a similar secret club....
Confused. He man women haters club? What? We need a little clarification here!
ReplyDeleteBy damned, I'm mighty glad I don't work at Broad Ripple. Thank you, Jeeezus!
ReplyDeleteAw shucks, and miss all this fun? It's the only fun we have there!
ReplyDeleteLaugh if you can't cry.
Confused. He man women haters club? What? We need a little clarification here!
ReplyDeleteYou're just too young, sorry....http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Our_Gang
the pledge of the club Everyone raise your right hand ... No, your other right hand. . . I, Stymie Member in good standing of the He-man Woman Haters Club do solemnly swear to be a heman and hate women and not play withthem or talk to them unless I have to.
At Ripple it is more like the Real Teacher Administrator Haters Club. Everyone raise your right hand, no your other right hand, I (your name) a member in good standing of Real Teacher/ Administrator Haters Club do solemnly swear to be a keep teaching and we don't play with them or talk to them unless we have to.
Please send us some decent administrators, so we can disband this club.
It has nothing to do with gender. It is about purpose. Real teachers are there to support students and prepare them for the future. The administration is there because they are on some sort of ego driven power trip, instead of being there to support quality teaching and education.
If we don't keep poking fun at them we'd have to cry.
Thank you! I get it and agree 100%.
ReplyDeletePlease send true educational leaders to Broad Ripple before "we" destroy more childrens' academic lives.
@If we don't keep poking fun at them we'd have to cry.
ReplyDeleteAs Jimmy Buffett sings, "If we couldn't laugh, we would all go insane."
And, here's to Linda Davis's inner Jimmy Buffett, "I was hungry and went out for a bite,
Ran into a chum with a bottle of rum,
And we wound up drinkin' all night."
Frankly, there's not a thing wrong with Linda Davis; she's just too much candy for most people's dimes. I like the girl.
"I believe this also because the state does want to take over schools, control the inner money, lower teacher salaries, turn more public schools into charters etc.
ReplyDeleteIt is a real shame that we let the politicians in our state dictate and destroy."
I blame the teachers in a profession dominated by women who voted based on what their husbands told them or their church. We got the old bait and switch. No job creation but plenty of social legislation. Fear not. There will be other elections and teachers need to get involved.
Ah , come on now ;-) You know this state is mired in 19th century ideals and Old Republicanism. Down south they would call these folks Scalawags. When you have someone like Dan Burton getting elected for life there is something rotten to the core. If Pence is elected, we might as well bail out and leave the state. That boy makes Mitch look like a liberal.
ReplyDeleteIPS needs to be taken over. The crookedness has become too much. Maribeth Guhl is a friend of Liyen Johnson. Jimmy Hill is too. We spend lots of money on friends.
ReplyDeleteI also want to know more about Stan Law's relative. Can we hire when we laid off many teachers? Good thing Eugene White changed the nepotism policy when he did. Now everyone can take advantage.
Anonymous said...
ReplyDelete"I can't believe someone doesn't know who the bitter person is that is posting about Davis. What goes around comes around and you will get yours."
Do you really think you know who the bitter person is? I doubt it! If you think it is the English teacher I have news for you it is not. She has not been on this blog since the end of the school year. She has been told what has been written about her in these blogs. She doesn't feel the need to defend herself or speak out against certain administrators on this blog. She has made her point the correct way. It is well documented and I dare say that she "will not get hers in the end" as it would be pretty foolish for anyone to go after her after the fact. I believe she would have a very strong case in a court of law. Enough said....
Yes, she would. And with many willing witnesses.
ReplyDeleteThank God I don't work at Ripple. You folks are scary weird.
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