Voted off Kindergarten Island!

[Guest guest]

This is appalling!

A Kindergarten teacher somehow thought it would be a good idea to invite her

students, one

by one, to tell 5-year old Barton why they didn't like him. She then held

a vote on

whether the students wanted to keep in their class. is in the process

of being

tested for Asperger's Syndrome, a form of Autism Spectrum Disorder.

If, like me, you find it hard to believe that anyone would do this, here's a

link to a newspaper

article about the incident.

http://www.tcpalm.com/news/2008/may/24/30gtteacher-lets-students-vote-out-

classmate-5/

Now - let's do something about it! If you think that this teacher deserves to

be fired for such

blatantly unprofessional and discriminatory behaviour, please sign this

petition!

http://www.thepetitionsite.com/1/Fire-teacher-for-unprofessional-conduct

[Guest guest]

This is appalling!

A Kindergarten teacher somehow thought it would be a good idea to invite her

students, one

by one, to tell 5-year old Barton why they didn't like him. She then

held a vote on

whether the students wanted to keep in their class. is in the

process of being

tested for Asperger's Syndrome, a form of Autism Spectrum Disorder.

If, like me, you find it hard to believe that anyone would do this, here's a

link to a newspaper

article about the incident.

http://www.tcpalm.

<http://www.tcpalm.com/news/2008/may/24/30gtteacher-lets-students-vote-out->

com/news/2008/may/24/30gtteacher-lets-students-vote-out-

classmate-5/

Now - let's do something about it! If you think that this teacher deserves

to be fired for such

blatantly unprofessional and discriminatory behaviour, please sign this

petition!

http://www.thepetit

<http://www.thepetitionsite.com/1/Fire-teacher-for-unprofessional-conduct>

ionsite.com/1/Fire-teacher-for-unprofessional-conduct

[Guest guest]

I did read the teacher ( Portillo) has been reassigned to desk

duty pending the investigation. Most school districts don't have the

balls to fire these bad teachers. She disgusts me.

Pam

>

> This is appalling!

>

> A Kindergarten teacher somehow thought it would be a good idea to

invite her

> students, one

> by one, to tell 5-year old Barton why they didn't like him.

She then

> held a vote on

> whether the students wanted to keep in their class. is in

the

> process of being

> tested for Asperger's Syndrome, a form of Autism Spectrum Disorder.

>

> If, like me, you find it hard to believe that anyone would do this,

here's a

> link to a newspaper

> article about the incident.

>

> http://www.tcpalm.

> <http://www.tcpalm.com/news/2008/may/24/30gtteacher-lets-students-

vote-out->

> com/news/2008/may/24/30gtteacher-lets-students-vote-out-

> classmate-5/

>

> Now - let's do something about it! If you think that this teacher

deserves

> to be fired for such

> blatantly unprofessional and discriminatory behaviour, please sign

this

> petition!

>

> http://www.thepetit

> <http://www.thepetitionsite.com/1/Fire-teacher-for-unprofessional-

conduct>

> ionsite.com/1/Fire-teacher-for-unprofessional-conduct

>

>

>

>

>

>

[Guest guest]

balls? if it were only that simple. most districts are hamstrung by

union/contract rules that deliberately make getting rid of problem

teachers difficult. one telling example from Stossel's 20/20

report two years ago:

" In New York City, it's " just about impossible " to fire a bad teacher,

says Schools Chancellor Klein. The new union contract offers some

relief, but it's still about 200 pages of bureaucracy. " We tolerate

mediocrity, " said Klein, because " people get paid the same, whether

they're outstanding, average or way below average. "

Here's just one example from New York City: It took years to fire a

teacher who sent sexually oriented e-mails to " Cutie 101, " a

16-year-old student. Klein said, " He hasn't taught, but we have had to

pay him, because that's what's required under the contract. "

Only after six years of litigation were they able to fire him. In the

meantime, they paid the teacher more than $300,000. Klein said he

employs dozens of teachers who he's afraid to let near the kids, so he

has them sit in what are called rubber rooms. This year he will spend

$20 million dollars to warehouse teachers in five rubber rooms. It's

an alternative to firing them. In the last four years, only two

teachers out of 80,000 were fired for incompetence. Klein's office

says the new contract will make it easier to get rid of sex offenders,

but it will still be difficult to fire incompetent teachers.

When I confronted Randi Weingarten, president of the United Federation

of Teachers, she said, " They [the NYC school board] just don't want to

do the work that's entailed. " But the " work that's entailed " is so

onerous that most principals just have just given up, or gotten bad

teachers to transfer to another school. They even have a name for it:

" the dance of the lemons. " "

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Re: FW: Voted off Kindergarten Island!

Posted by: " noaholiviaian " phaselow@... noaholiviaian

Tue May 27, 2008 3:08 pm (PDT)

I did read the teacher ( Portillo) has been reassigned to desk

duty pending the investigation. Most school districts don't have the

balls to fire these bad teachers. She disgusts me.

Pam

[Guest guest]

I'd like to vote this teacher out of our species.

Farley wrote:

>

> This is appalling!

>

> A Kindergarten teacher somehow thought it would be a good idea to

> invite her

> students, one

> by one, to tell 5-year old Barton why they didn't like him. She then

> held a vote on

> whether the students wanted to keep in their class. is in the

> process of being

> tested for Asperger's Syndrome, a form of Autism Spectrum Disorder.

>

> If, like me, you find it hard to believe that anyone would do this,

> here's a

> link to a newspaper

> article about the incident.

>

> http://www.tcpalm.

> <http://www.tcpalm.com/news/2008/may/24/30gtteacher-lets-students-vote-out-

> <http://www.tcpalm.com/news/2008/may/24/30gtteacher-lets-students-vote-out->>

> com/news/2008/may/24/30gtteacher-lets-students-vote-out-

> classmate-5/

>

> Now - let's do something about it! If you think that this teacher deserves

> to be fired for such

> blatantly unprofessional and discriminatory behaviour, please sign this

> petition!

>

> http://www.thepetit

> <http://www.thepetitionsite.com/1/Fire-teacher-for-unprofessional-conduct

> <http://www.thepetitionsite.com/1/Fire-teacher-for-unprofessional-conduct>>

> ionsite.com/1/Fire-teacher-for-unprofessional-conduct

>

>