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I thought that it was only the useless politically connected administrators and "corrupt administrators" (your words just a few posts above) that are "parked" in these positions. I guess you were talking about yourself instead of your previous coworkers.

terminator

10:25
oh, did I forget to add, I also served on the Education Practices Commission while in Tally.
Buuuyaaa sucker!!!!!
You just got punked.
Jealousy is so unbecoming.

Dear termie,

Your experiences include failing as a teacher, a school administrator, a DOE employee and now a local union rep. Which of these qualifies you to judge anyone else?

terminator

from my experience as a union rep, usually the "rat squad" (OPS) is where they park the corrupt administrators.
has anyone bothered to file a public records request to look at their employment file or done a lexusnexus search to see what they can dig up?

Ron

I am with 4:47. You get what you pay for. We pay a ton for the admins and little for teachers. Just today the Board increased Dr. Janssen salary $50,000, from a paltry $131,000 to $184,000. Very few teachers make $50,000, but all admins do. The group in OPS is part of the waste. There are better ways to police the teachers and staff. See my first post.

If the Legislature and Senator Lisa Carlton really cared about improving the quality of teachers in Florida, public education would have seen an increase of over a billion dollars instead of a decrease of over $700 million. They didn't really care, but now, look for them to point to the dismantling of this administrative office. If the salaries were at a level that truly recruited the best and brightest (and the least pervie) into the profession, we wouldn't need much in the way of professional practice officials in the first place.

John

Tito--
Really???
You must have some kind of problem with the school district, but I think you're a little over the top. Get help.

Tito

No wonder the school system is so corrupt! How do you implement programs like TTT, essentially allowing the county to hire garbage men as teachers and not have a massive task force looking into allegations?

Meanwhile students are getting raped in Pinellas county schools on a daily basis.

Ron

How about the Principals designating 5 experienced teachers per school to sit on a violations/standards board that would hear the evidence presented against a teacher and decide. We use peer mediation in all the schools, why not this? Further school panels would not hear allegations from their own school, but would travel to a different school to sit and take evidence.

As it is now, it is the word of the principal and the Standards investigator against the teacher. The "accused " is not given any opportunity to gather evidence in his/her defense until the interview. It is horribly one sided and certainly diametrically opposed to the fairness issues set out in the US Constitution.

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