Today I had the joy of sitting through a Professional Development designed to help teachers. I was reminded of a present my wife and I received for our wedding. The givers had forgotten to take their names still on it. The classic re-gifting. Well, the more that things change, the more they stay the same.
I could take the repackaging of some old ideas. What I found really hard to take was the five minute video pep talk from the District Superintendent. First of all the cold forced smile. Never trust someone who smiles too much. How do you respect someone who admittedly falsified information on their resume? How can you listen to someone who is threatening to cut your pay via furlough days by another 20 days?
The nerve to mention that older teachers might have lost their fire and that some re-do of old ideas on a "guide" would help. Cutting pay takes away desire. Adding layers of administrative fat on the district level while siphoning funds from schools sites by reducing staff (clerical, teaching, administrative and maintenance) and then suggesting that teachers take a pay cut is diabolical. But, with a School Board with more a severe shortage on personal integrity but obviously not on calorie intake, what do I expect.
I don't even think I can string together a coherent string of thoughts to express the disdain, contempt and anger I have towards the nepotistic self absorbed fools that choose leaders like drunk monkeys throwing darts.
Can anyone make sense of the state of education? Tell me what you think.
