[quote=no_such_reality]LOL, I’ll pull this quote from the prior thread on this topic.
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Basically your comment exemplifies why this ruling is needed.
You see, no one is actually in charge. The administration is, but only as long as the union and teahers agree.
That’s dysfunctional. Sure, some insane heavy handed administrators will make a mess in places, but just like most teachers are good, most administrators are good.
The problem is the dysfunctional relationship between the two and with union protections insures there is no accountability.
Meanwhile, LAUSD is moving a couple hundred ‘teachers’ to their own homes because having them show up to ‘teaching jail’ is too costly.
Res ipsa loquitur, it’s is broken.
And yes, I will say thank you for the years of service you have done in the schools. But honestly CAR, you come across as extremely burned out by your years of teaching.[/quote]
You’d be surprised at how little experience many administrators have. Many of them fast-track through the classroom, some working as little as 1-3 years in the classroom, because their goal all along was to get into administrative positions. Perhaps you think that these administrators should be telling teachers what to do, but most teachers would disagree with you. Not only that, but administrators tend to move around more than teachers do, and the goals and methods that each administrator brings to the school site can be confusing and contradictory. The older, tenured teachers have seen it all before, so they tend to be a bit jaded and dismissive of the new administrators and their brilliant and new ideas (most of which are neither brilliant nor new). That’s not a bad thing, it’s an asset to the school and the students. Trust me, if teachers think that something will work better than what they’re currently doing, they will jump on it; but they will not bow and scrape before the new administrators just because these admins want to pad their resumes and make a name for themselves as they attempt to climb up the political ladder.
Most teachers have 6+ years of college, and the tenured ones (especially the vocal ones) have years of experience on top of that. They don’t want people who have no or less experience or knowledge about the job to dictate what they’re supposed to do on a daily basis. Sounds pretty reasonable to me.
No, I wasn’t burned out by teaching. I got out because we wanted a SAHP with our kids. But I’ve seen too many teachers deal with all kinds of scary situations with crazy, power-hungry politicians, parents, and administrators…and I wanted none of that. I went from the corporate world to teaching because it was my life-long passion, but after seeing what I saw, I would go back to the corporate world before going back into teaching. It’s sad, but teachers get neither the credit nor the respect that they deserve because the vast majority of people out there really don’t have a clue about what teachers do for a living.
