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Blog note: I will be taking a bit of a hiatus and so the blog will go into quiet mode.Boy, do I like this: one soccer ref for school-aged kids has had enough and has a Facebook page where he logs terrible/outrageous behavior by parents at games. From the NY Times:
Will districts ever learn to stop supporting staff with issues they know about? Seattle has its problem at Muir and now word comes via the Tri-City Herald that Prosser SD in the Tri-Cities knew there was a teacher who was "grooming kids" and yet they kept him and then helped him get a job in a nearby district, Granger.The videos were posted on a Facebook page, Offside, created in frustration by an Oklahoma youth soccer referee, Brian Barlow, who offers a $100 bounty for each clip in order to shame the rising tide of unruly parents and spectators at youth sports events.“I do it to hold people accountable — to identify and call out the small percentage of parents who nonetheless create a toxic environment at youth sports,” Barlow, 44, said. “It’s a very visual deterrent, and not just to the person caught on video but to others who ask themselves: Do I look like that jerk?”
And while in Granger, Stephen J. Castilleja’s troubling behavior went unchecked — and one of his students ended up in explicit video filmed in a classroom, it says.Both districts are part of a civil lawsuit filed by the parents of the child in the video.
He twice was written up — once for “poor judgment” while supervising students on a ski trip, and another time for what the then-superintendent later characterized as “grooming behavior.”
Based on these kinds of stories (as well as what is happening in Washington, D.C.), I'm going out on a limb early and calling the word of the year to be complicit.
Still waiting for the decision from the Washington State Supreme Court on the current charter school law. As you may recall, after the first law (passed by initiative) was overturned by the Court in 2015 just before Labor Day, a new bill was created and passed by the Legislature in 2016. A lawsuit was filed against that law with the plaintiffs saying that the new law still has flaws. It's now in the Court's hands now as the Court heard oral arguments in May.
The last time the law went to the Court, it took over a year to get a decision. But McCleary has been cleared up and the justices have already been thru this dance before. My take is that they certainly won't- not after the wailing last time - give the decision right as school is starting. So either they will come out in August with a ruling or maybe not until next year. My spidey sense tells me they will uphold the law just as they decided the State had done enough on McCleary.
Advice from WAPTSA on possible work stoppages.
"It is the position of PTA that disruption to the educational system in the form of work stoppages and/or strikes is often detrimental to the best interest of the children and families affected by those actions."Charter school supporter on the LAUSD Board, Ref Rodriguez, finally - after a year of stonewalling - stepped down from the Board as he took a plea of guilty to felony charges of money laundering. He still has a financial scandal to answer for that is separate from these charges. From the LA Times:
Rodriguez gave up his seat the same morning he appeared in court to announce a plea deal with prosecutors, who had brought felony counts against him for political money laundering during his 2015 election campaign. Under the deal, announced Monday, Rodriguez will plead guilty to one felony count of conspiracy and four misdemeanor charges of assumed name. He will also complete 60 days of community service and serve three years of probation.Their teachers union is calling for all votes that were 4-3 to be thrown out. Diane Ravitch adds this:
Rodriguez was also set to accept a parallel deal with L.A. City Ethics Commission in which he and his co-defendant — cousin Elizabeth Melendrez — would admit to the political money laundering scheme in exchange for paying a reduced fine of $100,000.
Rodriguez was one of four board members endorsed by the California Charter Schools Association. That bloc's lock on a majority on the seven-member board is now gone.
Superintendent Beutner, billionaire and former hedge fund manager, will now have to figure out how to work with a board that does not have a working majority until this issue is resolved.Oh NOW people care about the effects of Common Core? From Diane Ravitch:
But, lo, the Thomas B. Fordham Institute discovered a huge difference that everyone but TBF attributes to Common Core. Teachers are dropping classic literature. For one thing, the CORE prioritizes non-fiction Over fiction. For another, students are expected to do close reading, which prepares them for the snippets of text on a standardized test.I note from the district's calendar that the Board is having a closed session on August 8th on "Bargaining."
TBF says “teachers should take another look at their ELA curriculum to make sure they aren’t overlooking classic works of literature. Although it’s encouraging that ELA teachers are assigning more informational texts and literary nonfiction, as the CCSS expect, it’s concerning that they seem to be doing so at the expense of “classic works of literature.””
TBF received millions of dollars from the Gates Foundation to advocate for the adoption of the Common Core, even in states where the English curriculum was far superior to the Common Core, with Massachusetts as the prime example.
They are hardly in a position now to disown the consequences of the Core, which many English teachers predicted.
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