During my entire time at the school, the principal broke all appointments by not showing up for my classroom observations. I had to be proactive and reschedule the observations myself. I was given excellent evaluations (6 in total) during my first two years. The state in which I live requires teachers with a negative annual evaluation be given 90 days to improve. I was given 2 days (for one questionably adverse evaluation before being fired.)
My livelihood was taken away because of an irresponsible principal who didn’t do the required work concerning my job either in my first, second or third year. It was easier to get rid of me than to complete the mentoring program. It was easier to discredit me than to have the principal’s incompetence and negligence revealed. The principal admitted to me that I “fell through the cracks.” (No, you dropped the ball!) Meanwhile, this principal is being considered for a higher administrative job within the “system.”
I utilized the school’s mediation process to be heard, but it was a sham kangaroo “court.” I didn’t look for monetary relief; I only wanted the principal to complete my portfolio for my professional certificate. The principal refused, even as the mediator directed the principal to take the book and work on it. The mediator didn’t show up for the second session of the mediation, citing he was “booked up.” I got a message that he’s sorry he couldn’t help me and he’s closed my file.
Losing a job over slight imperfections in my teaching style is one thing, but now I cannot teach at all. The irony is that I became a better teacher while at that school, proactively correcting past mistakes to make my performance more effective, and I got fired for it. The vindictiveness of someone exerting their position of power by using fabricated, contrived reality to ruin a person’s career (without allowing me to face my accusers) is one thing. The lack of compassion and unwillingness to work with a new teacher to support them is unconscionable. The worst effect of this fiasco however, is that it teaches our students that manipulation and bad behavior is rewarded.
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These administrators are great role models for students. They lie, cheat, steal, and do every other illegal or unethical act with impunity. And taxpayers are footing the bill for these crooks.
But then there is a case not at all like mine that is unreal. This was in 2005:
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