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It is amazing how every time a crisis hits the first word that starts
getting thrown around is accountability. The second word that is usually
stated is "pay," too much pay to be specific. If you expect someone with 25
years experience to work for the same amount of pay that a person with 2
years experience gets you really must think that person with more experience
is an idiot. It is insulting to expect a person with experience to stay at
the same level of pay as a lesser experienced employee.
Note that these statements about irresponsibility also do not include
circumstances that lead to the situation to start with. The usual rants
include fiscal irresponsibility and other comments. This year; for example,
the price of heat was not what it was last year. Student enrolment continues
to decline. Why not brush those issues aside and get people on the fiscal
irresponsibility bandwagon after all that is an easier way to accept a
larger problem?
on 03/07/01 11:56, Paul Double at [EMAIL PROTECTED] inscribed into gold:
> I am always impressed by the way the Education Association always is able
> to remove accountability from their membership either by diverting the
> issue of "their individual competence to deliver education in a manner each
> student can learn" into to the testing or not testing of students (to
> arouse parents) and to the need to eliminate their membership from
> supervision (eliminate administrators).
>
> When will we allow supervisors (building Principals) the authority and with
> it the responsibility to provide teacher evaluations and "only with their
> approval" grant all pay raises, bonuses, hiring and firing responsibility.
> That, in my opinion, starts the process of accountably and professional
> management. The roll of Central Administration then assures that the
> Principals are fair, professional and truly accountable for what is taking
> place in their buildings and that district policy is uniform on all
> campuses. Central Administration responsibility is to evaluate the
> Principal and approve or freeze their compensation based on the results of
> what is taking place in that school. Time on a job should have no reward
> unless it is tied to corresponding achievement. The School Board then has
> the responsibility to evaluate the Superintendent's leadership and the
> results achieved. They then, can look to the future, not move from one
> crises to the next.
>
> Paul Double
> [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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David Dittmann
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