We thought the San Mateo County was suffering. Look at this! ALL teachers were fired at a Central Falls High School with a 5-2 decision. The firing will be effective at the end of the school year. The decision was made when "the district said it failed to reach an agreement with the teachers' union on a plan for the teachers to spend more time with students to improve test scores."
Really? Firing all the teachers because of that just seems absurd. A total of 93 people were fired (inluding the principal).
This school is the lowest performing school in Rhode Island. But I believe that even that does not justify a complete shut down of the school. What will happen to the teachers? The students?
The government is trying its best to help reboot the economy but so far, with these problems on the side, I think that our government's efforts are just going to waste. We all need to do something. The state of Rhode Island should not have done that. But I guess with the budget cuts, it had no option. U.S. is at an impasse.
Thursday, February 25, 2010
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Epic.
I'm not going to choose to investigate this specific incident, but I would not automatically trust the teachers in this situation. Slam a car into a brick wall at 70 mph. You've got a big, mangled, mess to take care of. Is it better to fix the car, or to buy a new one? This school might have been totaled.
Whatever good, professional teachers that were there are caught in the crossfire of a political showdown, and that sucks for them, but there are plenty of good employees that have lost jobs because of the idiocy of their peers or of management.
That being said, some student populations are difficult to teach and schools with deep levels of dysfunction are usually in neighborhoods with intractable social problems. A new crop of adults might help, but the families probably need to take more responsibility for the education of their children as well.
Dude this hella sucks! and i agree that even if it is the lowest performing school that they deserv a chance to make things batter and 93 people lost there jobs is crazy. People really didnt think about the students. We are li=ucky in san mateo we have 3 public highschools avialibel to us and we have a number of privite school as welll what choices do those other students have? not very many im thinking because of the small nature of the state:/
Wow. The school should have replaced the teachers instead of firing all of them. Also, even if the students went to another school, their performance would not change.
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