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By jim d

August 4, 2008 10:20 AM | Link to this

C’mon Laura,

You can’t be that niave. Certainly it goes on in EVERY school system. Schools have unfortunatly become a job entitlement for some of the most incompetent slackers in the work force. The truly sad part is that dedicated caring teachers get slimed in the process.

By Jeff

August 4, 2008 10:52 AM | Link to this

Well, I’m no longer a teacher due to similar problems in Randolph County, though there it was the Board that was being ethical and the Superintendent that wasn’t.

Overall though, if I still worked there I would be driving 70 miles one way to work in a Hades-Hole. As is, I’m driving 13 miles one way to a job I actually enjoy, thereby saving quite a bit of gas AND not having my life threatened constantly.

So here’s to unethical illegitimate children. They truly are a female dog to work under, but at least you know once you leave that it will NEVER be that bad again!

By jim d

August 4, 2008 11:03 AM | Link to this

Laura,

Gotta admit, you got me today, hook line and sinker.

Just got to thinking about it and realized you’ve been doing education for a long time. Whats it been 5 years here in atlanta with a stint in Fl.? before that? all in education?

GOOD JOB!!

By blackbird

August 4, 2008 11:40 AM | Link to this

oh yes! Hall County schools is rife with it! At least two principals have lost positions there over the last 3 years so that the superintendant’s good friend could have their jobs. He also receives around 9 thousand a year to drive back and forth to work everyday! Take a look at http://thehallmonitor.wordpress.com That and more has been discussed over the past months alot of teachers have been nonrenewed with bogus or no resins given

By SallyB

August 4, 2008 11:56 AM | Link to this

ust look at Dekalb….Whoa!!! Family and friends of board members [both now and former], administrators!!!! Nepotism is rampant. I also remember when a sub was hired to cover a job for several months at a “high acheiving” , highly desirable elementary school because the job was being held for one of our illustrious governor’s daughters who wouldn’t be ready when school began.

By catlady

August 4, 2008 12:54 PM | Link to this

If that is a criteria for SACs visit, our system should be under their scrutiny. Funny thing was, when we were under severe scrutiny about a year ago, it was NOT for that reason, but something infinitely more bogus.

I can name quite a few cases where this is true in my own small county. Of course, then there are the “hire the man and give his wife a good job” cases, too.

What some folks don’t realize is that it demoralizes ALL the faculty when this stuff goes on.

By MiltonMan

August 4, 2008 1:43 PM | Link to this

Why won’t the state just buy Clayton County, move everybody out & use it for a massive landfill?

By jim d

August 4, 2008 4:33 PM | Link to this

Milton man,

they already are using it as a landfill without having to buy it! :-)

By Erin

August 4, 2008 4:50 PM | Link to this

Sally’s right about the nepotism in DeKalb … it seems to go back years, even decades there.

At the elementary school there I attended in the 1980s, the school got a new principal in 1986 … who, as it turns out, just happened to be married to someone on the school board.

I doubt that’s a coincidence. I could’ve run the school better than this woman did and I was still a student there at the time!

By Lee

August 4, 2008 10:36 PM | Link to this

I have no doubt that there are (a lot, some, a few, one or two) board members who abuse their position.

I also know that a board member has the ear of the superintendent. I call the super and get the run around. I call my neighbor who is on the board and he calls the super and gets an answer.

So, is that micro-managing or is that doing what they were elected to do?

By bro

August 4, 2008 10:38 PM | Link to this

I agree with blackbird about Hall County. I have heard a lot of questionalable things about that system for about 2 years. The morale is rock bottom low and the central office staff just keeps getting larger and larger. Read the website that blackbird suggests and also the older blogs on gainesville times community page. Pretty scary.

By bro

August 4, 2008 10:46 PM | Link to this

Sorry, I can’t type. It should read questionable.

By Dr. Craig Spinks

August 6, 2008 1:01 PM | Link to this

Are intimidation and pressure legitimate tools for principals and other superintendent to use in controlling their respective teaching forces?

By Dr. Craig Spinks

August 6, 2008 1:02 PM | Link to this

Are intimidation and pressure legitimate tools for principals and other administrators to use in controlling their respective teaching forces?

By bro

August 6, 2008 8:41 PM | Link to this

So how can we rid our schools of fear, intimidation, and nepotism? Somehow there are not enough checks and balances between the superintendents and the school boards. Would an elected superintendent with 2 year terms help put back some accountability? My county desperately needs accountability! We can gripe all day about needless central office staff, nepotism, bullying, etc… but what can actually be done about it?

By AJ

August 7, 2008 5:28 PM | Link to this

It is funny - accountability for schools is all the rage and talk and jargon in this country but there is next to no accountability for local school boards. Yes they are elected, but once in there is no oversight. Teachers and parents have no way to rate or evaluate boards or superitendants. Both groups fear reprisals (rightly so - just look at Hall County) if they speak out. You can’t file complaints of grieviences except in front of the board of education. The PSC has no teeth and won’t look at anything without a name attached - which usually just serves to get the complainer fired or forced out. It is a mess!

You want to improve schools and increase accountability to do so you will have to start with the local boards and the central offices. Everything flows downhill form there.

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