I have backed the superintendent through most of this fray over her
leadership, that is until the Tuesday board meeting.
I know some of the people who are on the "fire at will" list and in one
case have spent the last 5 years working closely with that person. These are
outstanding educators, willing to take on
tough positions at the district level to make a difference for students. They
don't deserve to be treated this way by the superintendent or the board. Also,
the superintendent didn't mention the
"fire at will" language in their contracts until after they accepted the jobs
at the 807, as Steve Belton pointed out on Tuesday. I think it is unethical
to have employees vacate their previous
MPS job, give up their seniority in some cases, move into their office and then
be told that they can be fired at the whim of the superintendent. I'd also
like to know who the handful of
administrators are who didn't get the "fire at will" clause" and why.
Considering all the talk about her "style", you wouldn't think even Ms.
Peebles would have balls enough to try this.
Buzzy Bohn
Folwell
Dorie Rae Gallagher wrote:
> > 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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