Yesterday my son's 1st and 2nd grade teacher at Barton Open got the kind of reassignment notice that Dan McGuire described. It was completely out of the blue for both her and for the families of the kids she teaches. She happens to have a special ed license and will be reassigned to another school.
As she put it, she feels like she's being punished for having too much education. If she didn't have the special ed license, she'd be able to stay put at Barton. She is exactly the kind of teacher that Barton has cultivated and her teaching fits in perfectly with the school. She's heartbroken and now the 23 families whose kids were in her class are shocked and pissed off at the district and/or the union (one of the trials of being a parent in this district is deciding who to blame.) If the district were TRYING to drive families away from the Minneapolis Public Schools, they couldn't have found a better strategy than this. Put teachers into teaching roles they don't want, and have parents see solid and well-respected teachers pulled from their schools willy-nilly. David Curle East Harriet REMINDERS: 1. Think a member has violated the rules? Email the list manager at [EMAIL PROTECTED] before continuing it on the list. 2. Don't feed the troll! Ignore obvious flame-bait. For state and national discussions see: http://e-democracy.org/discuss.html For external forums, see: http://e-democracy.org/mninteract ________________________________ Minneapolis Issues Forum - A City-focused Civic Discussion - Mn E-Democracy Post messages to: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Subscribe, Un-subscribe, etc. at: http://e-democracy.org/mpls
