Re: personal situation (sorry it's not philosophical)

[Karen Canty <kscanty@PACBELL.NET>]

Teresa,
I just read your post as a part of Judi's (my email has been down for a day
so never got your original post).  I'm glad you're checking with a lawyer
about your rights.  In California, any employee who is being discussed in
closed session can request that the session be held in the open and we, as a
board, would have to comply.  We have a pretty strict open meeting law in
California so it could be very different in NC, but I would still check.  It
seems really odd that you wouldn't be able to respond to any "charges" that
were brought against you.  But as I said, I'm not familiar with NC law.

Keep the faith - if you can.

Karen Canty

-----Original Message-----
From: Assessment Reform Network Mailing List
[mailto:ARN-L@LISTS.CUA.EDU]On Behalf Of Judi Hirsch
Sent: Tuesday, June 06, 2000 5:54 PM
To: ARN-L@LISTS.CUA.EDU
Subject: Re: personal situation (sorry it's not philosophical)


Where is your union in all of this? I can't believe they wouldn't give
you legal support.  Also, there's got to be something in the ed code
about how to treat teachers--like give them warnings or whatever...
what does your grievance procedure say? what about rallying the
parents, kids and your colleagues?
Judi
----- Original Message -----
From: Glenn <glenn@PEEDEEWORLD.NET>
To: <ARN-L@LISTS.CUA.EDU>
Sent: Tuesday, June 06, 2000 11:01 AM
Subject: personal situation (sorry it's not philosophical)


> Hello, all.  I've enjoyed reading all the theoretical/ philosophical posts
> recently.  This is not one of them. :)
>
> Thought I'd give you an update on my situation since you've all been so
> helpful & supportive.
>
> I attended the School Board meeting last evening.  I asked to speak to the
> SB but was told I could not.  (I asked twice, BTW.)  During closed session
> (I was sitting outside) they decided to suspend me for a week without pay
> during the first month or so of school.  A letter to that effect goes in
my
> personnel file.
>
> I'm not sure what to do from here.  On the one hand, there was serious
talk
> of losing my license to teach.  On the other hand, where do the students
> fall in this?  I posted my paraphrase of the EOG test questions to point
out
> how unfair they are to kids... how my students are going to summer school/
> feeling "stupid" (<-- kids have actually said this to me) because they
> missed the cut off by one or two points... one or two points they
> potentially lost with the horrible, unanswerable questions I paraphrased.
>
> And now I'm pulled out of my classroom for a week.  Again, who suffers?
The
> kids.
>
> Ugh.  I know that what I did was correct (although I'd phrase it more
> circumspectly in the future)... but at the same time, if I continue being
> "correct," I wonder how long I'll be allowed to work with kids at all..??
>
> At any rate, I appreciate all your supportive emails.  I'm talking with
some
> lawerly folks who can advise me on what options I have from here.  It's
not
> so much losing a week of pay (it's not like NC pays their teachers that
much
> ANYWAY) as it is making the kids lose their teacher for a week.  Of
course,
> I was told I could "voluntarily" come in and work. :-^
>
> Teresa Glenn
>
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