I don't get in trouble because the people I work with know me for the honest, decent, hardworking person that I am. They know that I'm the kind of person that will take the risk and speak up for what is right.
I did that. I did that with this woman and the school district that I live in and that my children attend. I spoke up against the incredibly dangerous situation that was playing out at a school I enjoyed working at. I did what any decent person would do WHO IS NOT INTIMIDATED BY EMPLOYERS AND BLACKLISTING.
Teachers are treated like slaves. We are treated like slaves because we allow it. IN WHAT OTHER PROFESSION do people regularly put themselves in an environment that can be dangerous? That year from hell--FROM BLOODY HELL--was caused by THIS WOMAN'S INCOMPETENCE, by the district's totally unwillingness to believe THE TEACHERS WHO HAD WORKED AT THAT SCHOOL FOR YEARS over this new comer--all because she was administrations and we were lowly teachers.
HOW DO I NOT GET IN TROUBLE?
How could I not believe in what I do if I don't have the guts to speak up for the safety and well being of my students? Of my friends and colleagues who still teach in the district?
How do you cower in whatever hole you do, not speaking up?
I was vindicated by the district removing the woman from office. AND YET, there will be no apology from the district for the mental and emotional harm they caused by refusing to listen to my pleas and the pleas of almost every teacher at that school. Administrations don't apologize, they just move on.
This is my blog about the REALITIES of teaching. If you don't like it, go read someone else's blog.
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rosecarmine
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Date: 2008-01-04 08:20 pm (UTC)I don't get in trouble because the people I work with know me for the honest, decent, hardworking person that I am. They know that I'm the kind of person that will take the risk and speak up for what is right.
I did that. I did that with this woman and the school district that I live in and that my children attend. I spoke up against the incredibly dangerous situation that was playing out at a school I enjoyed working at. I did what any decent person would do WHO IS NOT INTIMIDATED BY EMPLOYERS AND BLACKLISTING.
Teachers are treated like slaves. We are treated like slaves because we allow it. IN WHAT OTHER PROFESSION do people regularly put themselves in an environment that can be dangerous? That year from hell--FROM BLOODY HELL--was caused by THIS WOMAN'S INCOMPETENCE, by the district's totally unwillingness to believe THE TEACHERS WHO HAD WORKED AT THAT SCHOOL FOR YEARS over this new comer--all because she was administrations and we were lowly teachers.
HOW DO I NOT GET IN TROUBLE?
How could I not believe in what I do if I don't have the guts to speak up for the safety and well being of my students? Of my friends and colleagues who still teach in the district?
How do you cower in whatever hole you do, not speaking up?
I was vindicated by the district removing the woman from office. AND YET, there will be no apology from the district for the mental and emotional harm they caused by refusing to listen to my pleas and the pleas of almost every teacher at that school. Administrations don't apologize, they just move on.
This is my blog about the REALITIES of teaching. If you don't like it, go read someone else's blog.