From the HISD public website:
"If scores show that a teacher is actually dragging students backwards academically year after year, I expect principals to take this information very seriously. We simply can't allow teachers who consistently struggle—despite our best efforts to support them—to continue teaching. And we can't afford to wait to use all the information that is available to us. The stakes are too high for our students." - Terry B. Grier, Ed.D., Superintendent of Schools (highlight by me)
We will acknowledge that some students grow at a slower rate than others. The superintendent claims that teachers are "dragging students backward" that they know less coming out than going in. He then states that these teachers will be fired even if the administration does not know all the facts. We need to keep the pressure up. We can't allow these types of statements to be left unchallenged. Contact your board members. Make them either live with their decisions or do something to correct them.
Andy Dewey
Executive Vice-President, HFT
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I am a union member and have been one for many years. I can not believe that this world that"we all" live in...there are actually people (supposedly with smarts) believe that middle school educators can actually drag a student backwards when in fact every year, every year, every year I get students that come to me with no knowledge of anything! When I am told that a narrative is a horse, cow mule, Oh, No, it's a house...I feel as though I am being abused! There are so many variables to each student/parent's stories until there is no viable way that teachers can be accused of students getting to school late (every day), no, no supplies (ever) and when you give them supplies two days later they say, "I've lost them." parents that say I don't know what to do anymore...he/she just do not want to go to school, just to the clubs! I can go on and on, but most if not all educators in the suburban schools already know the rest of the book!
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