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Post by saintrad on Dec 4, 2006 12:54:19 GMT -6
Have any of you lost faith in your school district to do the right thing for the kids?
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Post by tog on Dec 4, 2006 13:11:21 GMT -6
Have any of you lost faith in your school district to do the right thing for the kids? yes |
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Post by brophy on Dec 4, 2006 13:13:32 GMT -6
What is the acceptable approach to this?
Is it 'acceptable' to cut losses and move on (even though it feels like you are giving up on the kids)?
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Post by blb on Dec 4, 2006 13:16:58 GMT -6
Not the one I'm at now (Thank God and Vince Lombardi) but two that I worked at previously, most definitely.
The ideas of NCLB, "accountability", etc. have administrators so worried about keeping THEIR jobs (or getting the next one) that they are letting the "stakeholders" (parents) and inmates run the asylums. Teachers are lower than whale sh!t on the food chain.
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Post by coachcalande on Dec 4, 2006 13:53:17 GMT -6
I think it happens to everyone.
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coachf
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Post by coachf on Dec 4, 2006 14:03:18 GMT -6
At a budget-cutting place like our school, the bottom-line is more important than the kids, all the time. It is terrible.
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Post by cjamerson on Dec 4, 2006 14:16:07 GMT -6
Myself and other coaches at our school are treated like students! We are constantly being frowned upon by other faculty members. Teachers in our district tell the students that we are bad role models. That coaching isn't a respectable profession. They are constantly trying to undermine our authority and the values we are trying to instill into our athletes. They bring up the fact that money is spent on new equipment and other things. What they fail to realize is that we are constantly doing off-season and in-season fund raising. It seems we always have some type of project going to help improve the state of our program. Not to mention that we also donate over 50% of our raised funds to some type of charitable organization, so we can so out kids the importance of giving back to the community.
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Post by sls on Dec 4, 2006 14:16:50 GMT -6
The fear of the loss of money due to NCLB really has our admin making some goofy decisions in order to improve our 70% graduation rate.
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coachf
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Post by coachf on Dec 4, 2006 14:24:41 GMT -6
Myself and other coaches at our school are treated like students! We are constantly being frowned upon by other faculty members. Teachers in our district tell the students that we are bad role models. That coaching isn't a respectable profession. They are constantly trying to undermine our authority and the values we are trying to instill into our athletes. They bring up the fact that money is spent on new equipment and other things. What they fail to realize is that we are constantly doing off-season and in-season fund raising. It seems we always have some type of project going to help improve the state of our program. Not to mention that we also donate over 50% of our raised funds to some type of charitable organization, so we can so out kids the importance of giving back to the community. I have experienced this, as well. Except our administrators tend to do it more than the teachers. I think a lot of them look at it like we are playing a game. Like we leave school everyday to screw around for a couple of hours. I don't think they look at coaches with as much respect as they used to. Then again, I think that is a symptom of society. |
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Post by larrymoe on Dec 4, 2006 15:24:26 GMT -6
Coaches have never gotten any respect in your school district coachf. They have been seen as second rate idiots for at least the last 30 yrs.
And yes, I have certainly lost faith in a school district. I moved on.
The district I currently in I believe really, really wants to do the right thing for kids, I just don't think they have any idea on how to actually do it.
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Post by saintrad on Dec 4, 2006 15:28:56 GMT -6
how about a district professional(like a psychologist or counselor) betraying student confidentiality?
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Post by jhanawa on Dec 4, 2006 16:22:09 GMT -6
Saintrad, I'd think that one might result in legal action unless it deals with public/student safety or law enforcement.
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Post by fbdoc on Dec 4, 2006 17:00:31 GMT -6
I've chosen to leave a school when I had "lost faith" in the admin. It's one of those tough decisions that most teachers and coaches will unfortunately have to make in their career. Right now I'm in a very good situation at a Private school with great leadership and a supportive commission (board).
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Post by semi-pro64 on Dec 5, 2006 17:01:33 GMT -6
The biggest problem I see is politically correctness and the feminization of boys. A lot of this starts at or with the administration, I certainly don’t think you make a blanket statement that all districts are this way, however I know it is happening more and more. I worked for a school district and their core values were the opposite of the values of the game of football. It made it hard to make these boys into men through the game of football.
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Post by coachjaz on Dec 5, 2006 22:35:36 GMT -6
The last school I was at was like that. At least the assistant principal was. Literally it seemed that his job was to find any little thing that the teachers were doing wrong and tear them a new a**, and NEVER support the teacher when the parents called.
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Post by poweriguy on Dec 5, 2006 23:48:37 GMT -6
The district I left had a board member say to a parent "as long as my family still get's our health insurance, I don't give a damn." After that parent asked him about the financial hole the district was in.
By the way, all board members and their families get health insurance though the school for , being on the board.
Plus there is a revolving door at all positions in administration. And the kids are suffering big time. It's such a shame it should be criminal.
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