Doug..
Regulating the authority of supervisors as described above is good for
morale
and the effectiveness of an organization. Moreover, an employee who may be
"fired-at-will" is under greater pressure to please the boss and to engage
in
unethical and illegal conduct toward that end.
*If someone is going to break under greater pressure to please a boss and
engage
in unethical and illegal conduct...who wants them as an employee?! If they
are going to lose their moral fiber and this bothers them..get a different
job...but
why would anyone stoop to the low ground unless they are not competant
to compete at a higher level? If an employer asks them to be deceptive...
and it goes against their beliefs...same thing...get a different job.
Doug..
Making top administrators "fire-at-will" employees isn't necessarily a
good
idea just because 'other school district's do it.'
Granting Peebles "fire-at-will" is undoubtedly the easiest, but not the
best
way to make administrators more accountable to the superintendent, in my
opinion. A better way to make administrators more accountable for their
job
performance, and not just to Dr. Peebles, would be for Peebles to address
aspects of
her own job performance in need of improvement, by her own admission, such
as,
interpersonal communications and delegation of authority...
*We lost 70 top people during cuts a few years back...many with exemplary
reviews...do
you really think any one of those people would have had the right to say...I
should not be
going because you are the one in need of improvement. Yes, they could have
but it would have hurried them out the door a little quicker.
No one should HAVE to make someone do a good job or be accountable
at the level of an administrator....they are paid to do a great job and be
totally accountable.
I do not know Dr. Peebles, she was hired by seemingly intelligent people
and
she had proven success in the past. She did not create the 47% figure of
students not graduating, she did not create the exodus to private and
charter;
the system has been broken for some time and NO ONE did doddlie squat
about it. Everyone would have sunk the boat to keep Johnson...for what
reason?
Our schools were failing .......where was the board and noise then??
Now, there is someone that has a different approach and is ruffling the
feathers
of the status quo which might be part of the problem. She was barely off the
train and rumors were being spred about painted windows etc.
Give me some facts and figures that prove she is not doing her job..
and is ruining our school system beyond the spoils she stepped
in on the first day of her positon.
Dorie Gallagher/Nokomis
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