Like Lambs to the Slaughter

Evidently there are a number of jobs at Washoe County School District still open although the school year has started already.

Naturally they aren't the "good" classroom jobs in elementary, or they used to be the "good" jobs before the Broadies and other "reformers" started running roughshod over the state. Those jobs are reserved only for internal hires or for somebody's spouse or kid.

There are lots and lots of special education jobs, as the article notes. Applicants are like lambs to the slaughter, but people will clamor to get a chance because, after all, it is a job. Special education teachers, especially, are treated like dirt by this district. If you aren't already an experienced special ed teacher, you will find yourself thrown into the class with little in the way of guidance on how to do your job so you have to improvise and work with what few materials you have. The kids and the parents are the easy parts of the job. Then you may get a principal who will approach you to cheat so those test scores look good, or you will have no decent mentor at all to show you the ropes because the mentor you get stuck with is a headcase who misses work a lot. To top that off, you may work in a school where you are not treated as a colleague but as the hired help or are bullied by certified support help who are actually certifiably nuts but have connections and still manage to have jobs. They throw their weight around because the principal is too busy out gallivanting around playing big shot and ignoring his or her leadership duties. The principals love these little cretins because they do their dirty work for them. They will lie, cheat, and steal for them while at the same time holding those principals and other administrators in total contempt. They will perjure themselves or engage in character assassination in bogus due process hearings. Not an easy environment to risk your career and every single thing you ever worked for.

WCSD Gossip

Here is the report of the proposed settlement with the parent who was arrested in June for trespassing on WCSD property:

WCSD Gossip

It appears the parent who was arrested at the district headquarters a couple of months ago got a settlement for $10,000, with an additional bit of money shelled out to the lawyer, for a total of $17.5 grand.

Not that the parent didn't deserve something for what he went through; after all, the poor guy was arrested:

The Washoe County School district has agreed to pay Larry Dailey, a parent arrested outside a school board meeting in June $10,000 and cover his legal expenses according to attorney Ken McKenna.

McKenna said the district agreed to drop all criminal charges and the trespass order.

Dailey has agreed to move forward and drop prior complaints, McKenna said.

"It's a little slap on the wrist," said McKenna. "But this wasn't about the money. This was about the district apologizing."

Of course the board will have to approve the settlement, and since this really DID happen, unlike the bullshit one where I was named all those years ago, there is no reason for them not to approve it.

Edit: They had the board meeting, and the matter was mentioned at the beginning. The proposed settlement will be voted on during the August 27 meeting.

They also had an introduction to the new principals for next year. A few might be good, but there are more than a few assholes including the one who fired me. She shouldn't even working there.

Unfortunately, her boss is rather a namby-pamby sort. He thinks he has a very high quality group of principals.

Edit 2: I am watching this thing live. Well, well. They didn't introduce her tonight, thank God.

Misleading

This article claims there were "hundreds" of positions "filled" by WCSD this summer, but of course this includes the so-called "overaged" employees as well as transfers. Even with those new kindergarten and ELL jobs included, very, very few jobs are available for outsiders who have no connections.

“It’s fast and furious, but nothing about this year is much different than other summers,” she said.

The district has hired about 100 new teachers and is processing about 300 teacher transfers. There are still about 100 teacher openings, a number that changes every day, said Huckaby.

A hundred new jobs out of over 3,000 certificated employees isn't very much. Most of the remaining jobs will be filled internally, no doubt.