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Post by coachwoodall on May 10, 2017 13:00:57 GMT -6
What;s the ridiculous part? US History, and Gov/Econ include three to five essays on each unit test. We all have to give the same tests too, so if your students don't do as well as your peers then you will be reassigned to a terrible teaching load or a terrible school. We have to turn in detailed lesson plans, maintain a detailed website and online calendars, attend afterschool meetings every week that cause us to miss practice ...We also have no union protection at all. We don't have tenure, well, I guess we sort of do, but it isn't called tenure. They can pretty much run you off in three years if they want. But they can certainly make you want to quit in one year. We also don't have coaching contracts. We coach "at-will." So the admin can let you go at any time with no explanation whatsoever and you have no recourse. ...My district is one of the wealthiest in the state and 3 times if my career, during a district budget crisis, they have said "well, let's just cut sports out then." Didn't happen, but it was on the chopping block. Coaching here also still included driving the bus, painting the fields, cutting grass, etc.
I know exactly what rcole is talking about. He is in the next county over, and I've worked in it before. This same county announced to us that the county (15 high schools) schools would be rated each against each other. If the school was not above the average, the DO would take corrective action. I'm no math major but unless everyone is exactly the same score wise, then there always is going to be a 'failing' school.
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Post by fantom on May 10, 2017 13:07:40 GMT -6
US History, and Gov/Econ include three to five essays on each unit test. We all have to give the same tests too, so if your students don't do as well as your peers then you will be reassigned to a terrible teaching load or a terrible school. We have to turn in detailed lesson plans, maintain a detailed website and online calendars, attend afterschool meetings every week that cause us to miss practice ...We also have no union protection at all. We don't have tenure, well, I guess we sort of do, but it isn't called tenure. They can pretty much run you off in three years if they want. But they can certainly make you want to quit in one year. We also don't have coaching contracts. We coach "at-will." So the admin can let you go at any time with no explanation whatsoever and you have no recourse. ...My district is one of the wealthiest in the state and 3 times if my career, during a district budget crisis, they have said "well, let's just cut sports out then." Didn't happen, but it was on the chopping block. Coaching here also still included driving the bus, painting the fields, cutting grass, etc.
I know exactly what rcole is talking about. He is in the next county over, and I've worked in it before. This same county announced to us that the county (15 high schools) schools would be rated each against each other. If the school was not above the average, the DO would take corrective action. I'm no math major but unless everyone is exactly the same score wise, then there always is going to be a 'failing' school. Not in Lake Woebegon.
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Post by gccwolverine on May 10, 2017 21:20:05 GMT -6
US History, and Gov/Econ include three to five essays on each unit test. We all have to give the same tests too, so if your students don't do as well as your peers then you will be reassigned to a terrible teaching load or a terrible school. We have to turn in detailed lesson plans, maintain a detailed website and online calendars, attend afterschool meetings every week that cause us to miss practice ...We also have no union protection at all. We don't have tenure, well, I guess we sort of do, but it isn't called tenure. They can pretty much run you off in three years if they want. But they can certainly make you want to quit in one year. We also don't have coaching contracts. We coach "at-will." So the admin can let you go at any time with no explanation whatsoever and you have no recourse. ...My district is one of the wealthiest in the state and 3 times if my career, during a district budget crisis, they have said "well, let's just cut sports out then." Didn't happen, but it was on the chopping block. Coaching here also still included driving the bus, painting the fields, cutting grass, etc.
I know exactly what rcole is talking about. He is in the next county over, and I've worked in it before. This same county announced to us that the county (15 high schools) schools would be rated each against each other. If the school was not above the average, the DO would take corrective action. I'm no math major but unless everyone is exactly the same score wise, then there always is going to be a 'failing' school. Standard bell curves always have and always will exist in every measurable endeavor mankind can possibly conceive of. The fact that supposedly "educated" people (education administrators and others) don't understand this, or refuse to understand this is just absurd.
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Post by gccwolverine on May 10, 2017 21:21:24 GMT -6
US History, and Gov/Econ include three to five essays on each unit test. We all have to give the same tests too, so if your students don't do as well as your peers then you will be reassigned to a terrible teaching load or a terrible school. We have to turn in detailed lesson plans, maintain a detailed website and online calendars, attend afterschool meetings every week that cause us to miss practice ...We also have no union protection at all. We don't have tenure, well, I guess we sort of do, but it isn't called tenure. They can pretty much run you off in three years if they want. But they can certainly make you want to quit in one year. We also don't have coaching contracts. We coach "at-will." So the admin can let you go at any time with no explanation whatsoever and you have no recourse. ...My district is one of the wealthiest in the state and 3 times if my career, during a district budget crisis, they have said "well, let's just cut sports out then." Didn't happen, but it was on the chopping block. Coaching here also still included driving the bus, painting the fields, cutting grass, etc.
Yeah, but that's the way it is. Doesn't mean it has to be, should be, ought to be.... Or is everywhere. 1 of the worst phrases in the English language is, "that's the way we've always done it"
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Post by coachtua on May 10, 2017 23:50:47 GMT -6
I have seen 3 assistants do it at my last school. 2 stopped coaching, 1 left to another school but kept teaching at our school... I'd suggest that you look at your program to see if there's something that drives them out. It's not the program, it was the individuals. Our program set the standard in our section and 2 of these guys just wanted it on the resume that they coached there. Thought it would help them get a Head coaching position somewhere. They both showed a lack of motivation. The other guy just gave up coaching period once he got tenure.
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