Wayward Principals

I have often written how ironclad principals' and other administrators' job security is--that it is almost impossible to get rid of them.

The operative word is "almost." This case is one where the "almost" applied:

The principal of a popular Queens high school was fired Wednesday after he was accused of fondling and soliciting oral sex from several of his students.

Quintin Cedeno was yanked from the High School of Construction Trades, Engineering and Architecture after the disturbing allegations emerged.

A guidance counselor told investigators that a 15-year-old student accused Cedeno, 33, of asking him for oral sex.

In text messages, the principal allegedly propositioned the teen and reminded him that he'd bought him a T-Mobile Sidekick cell phone.

The Education Wars IV: Asshole Administrators

This is how administrators pay for their negligence in wrongfully terminating teachers:

I'm counting the days until I leave for Hawaii. 3 more to go!!! Can't get here soon enough. Wishing all my FB friends a very Merry Christmas and Happy New Year. I wish you good health, happiness and fun!
December 15, 2009 at 5:14pm

And this:

Getting on a plane in 12 hours. Have a Merry Christmas and Happy New Year...see you in 2010. ALOHA!!!
December 18, 2009 at 4:40pm

And today:

Back from a beautiful two weeks in the sand and surf. Great friends, beautiful scenery, lots of relaxing and reading. Highlights: being "belly bumped" by huge manta rays as they were feeding, scuba diving on Xmas and New Year's day, seeing whales and dolphins lots of times, and getting a one of a kind tattoo. A permanent reminder of a great vacation. Happy New Year to all!!!
about an hour ago

This perjuring shitbag is pulling down 100K a year plus benefits and doing it on the back of my career. She can afford to take fancy vacations, while yours truly is struggling to survive.

Hatred and contempt for her and Washoe County School District doesn't BEGIN to describe my feelings.

This arrogant shitbag appears to have absolutely no conscience over what she did to me...she thinks she has it made...

Just you wait...

The Education Wars: Lousy Administrators

From the NY State Teachers' Net page:

My administrators tell so many lies. They lie about
anything. I respect the job that they should be doing, but
I do not respect them as individuals for not doing it. I
see the older teachers in my building get harassed and it
makes me loose sight of my goal. I always ask myself, "Why
stay in a profession that is going to kick you out when you
reach top salary?" As a newer teacher, I don't see a
future in teaching past 45. What are your stories. Please
feel free to vent and shed some light on your experiences
working for DOE.

P.S. Almost everyone seems to be related/connected in this
profession (sister,brother,daughter, friend of a family
member etc) These people seem to get the better end of the
stick with connections to the principal or LIS or Sup.
This appears to be citywide.

Concerned Teacher
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What kills me is the more these assholes screw up, the better they do. My POS principal, the one who committed perjury, the one who fired me not knowing what in the hell she was doing despite state law, federal FMLA law, due process violations, and the union contract, bragged on Facebook she was going to Hawaii for winter break. The idiot forgot to put on her privacy settings, so I was able to access her "wall." I took a screenshot of her wall and saved it to my hard drive, just for future reference. This sack of shit is taking expensive trips on the back of my career.

I am having to hock my mother's ring today in order to pay my auto insurance since state employment hasn't yet put through my EUI claim. I will be glad to go on Tier III federal and once again be able to put my claim through online in a couple of weeks. Then there is no delay of days to get money. I have to scrape by while this piece of human shit is allowed to keep her job, and she kept it through the district's criminal acts.

There aren't words vulgar enough to describe what she is. There is NO conscience on her part. If she had one, she'd have resigned the school district. The district, supposedly being held accountable to taxpayers, covers up for its administrators no matter how corrupt, crooked, negligent, or malicious they are.

The Education Wars

As if we didn't know this would be one of the results of No Child Left Behind.
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Some sage advice from a Nevada educator talking about the absolutely shitty school system there. It isn't just confined to Clark County or even to Nevada: bad administrators and ineffective unions are rampant throughout the United States.

It is indeed a crapshoot whether a teacher survives in public schools. One rotten, sociopathic principal, and it's all over, not just in Nevada but in every school district in the entire United States. You are blackballed and prevented from ever teaching again.

A snip:

First, the average annual teacher salary, roughly $46,000, is about half what police officers and firefighters make. In the first three years of this decade, as prices were tripling here, teachers received 0 percent (zero) in cost-of-living increases. In fact, teachers' cost-of-living raises for the entire decade have totaled only 16 percent, while police and firefighters have gotten between 35 and 45 percent.

In this derelict academic climate, psychopathic principals have frequently run rampant to create "lasting wounds and damaged schools," to quote Jo and Joseph Blase, co-authors of the book Breaking the Silence. According to one study cited by the Blases, 40 percent of principals nationally are knuckle-dragging troglodytes. In Vegas, this figure is probably closer to 60 percent. Hence, getting in a school here with a good principal is a crapshoot. The odds are stacked against you.

In a revealing speech to our school board recently, Ruben Murillo, president of the local teachers union, said, "We ask teachers to speak up [about working conditions], and they can't because they're afraid of retaliation." Sadly, Murillo's statement was a tacit admission the union has consistently failed its job of protecting teachers from unethical administrators.

One must understand, however, these "unions" aren't real unions at all and are nothing more than subsidiaries of school districts. And the problems with teachers' unions are the same all over the United States.