Both my childrens teachers were re-aligned out of their positions this year into Special Ed, for which they have no real aptitude or energy.
If I understood one of the scenarios correctly, many of these teachers will drop their special licences this year. Thus next year they will no longer be qualified to hold their special ed etc... spots and based on their tenure the district will be forced to put them back in regular classrooms - displacing, who else - but less senior teachers, some of whom got those spots this year because of realignment. The district will then need to go get new specialist teachers to fill the vacancies caused by the next reassignment.
It's particularly frustrating how strident the union has been on this issue. They seem to be putting blind adherence to strict tenure interpretation ahead of teacher and student interest. And as parents get disillusioned and pull their kids out of what is obviously a broken system, they accelerate the very decline in enrollments that is the fundamental problem in the system.
-mike hess Kingfield
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [Mpls] MPS Update on Teacher Realignment Process Date: Tue, 10 Aug 2004 16:13:43 EDT
Again, district officials say the MPS budget for 2004-2005 called for "the
reduction of more than 600 teachers." Yet the 2004-2005 budget calls for 210
fewer full time teacher positions than the 2003-2004 budget.
It is also noteworthy that the district reassigned 140 high-seniority
elementary teachers in order to preserve the jobs of 92 elementary teachers with
tenure (and less seniority), according to the press release.
The objective of the realignment process was to realign high-seniority
teachers out of their jobs, not to save the jobs of any tenured teachers.
Moreover, the district is doing a whole lot more teacher reshuffling than is
necessary, and the supplementary teacher reshuffling was not done with the informed
consent of the affected teachers, which is a violation of the teacher tenure
act, in my opinion.
Also see: Response to Ross Taylor re: Special Ed teacher qualifications & realignment http://members.tripod.com/educationright/id370.htm
I will attempt to speak during "delegations" at the board meeting today.
-Doug Mann, King Field
Mann for School Board web site
www.educationright.com
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