According to the Journal, Monica Armenta is questioning the fact that people (like me) are questioning the administrative soiree at the Inn of the Mountain Gods.
"At some point, the public's got to decide whether principals and administrators are really valued as much (as other professions)," she said. "Our pool is getting smaller and smaller, and these people are some of the most educated in the community ... It's a double message constantly."
Her objection is of course, another red herring.
If anyone in the community is undervalued, it is teachers, not administrators.
Armenta will say anything she can to shift the focus from the fact that administrators are not accountable for their conduct or their competence; which is the real problem the community has with administrators.
"At some point, the public's got to decide whether principals and administrators are really valued as much (as other professions)," she said. "Our pool is getting smaller and smaller, and these people are some of the most educated in the community ... It's a double message constantly."
Her objection is of course, another red herring.
If anyone in the community is undervalued, it is teachers, not administrators.
Armenta will say anything she can to shift the focus from the fact that administrators are not accountable for their conduct or their competence; which is the real problem the community has with administrators.
3 comments:
Thanks you for writing that! Administrators can afford their own outings to the damn mountain Gods casino. Can teachers? No! Who is the backbone in education, who can the system NOT eliminate and function? The teachers! Somewhere in administration school, they must tell them to forget everything thwey were as a teacher in order to fuction correctly. Some charter schools use a HEad Teacher (who still teaches classes) as the one and only administrator in the school....isn';t that a grand idea? And a tribunal of teachers, parents and maybe a couple of students to decide the fate of students that are to be punished instead of 1 human principal overloarding, lying and trying to humiliate them? This DOES happen! PRincipals are not appreciated becuase they allow their positions to be loaded with superficial meetings constantly and they aren;t accountable, so they stay looking busy doing non-essential bizzy-work. This is the tradition, but this is also acrime against using tax payer dollars to keep these busy "professionals" in their self-protective click.
Now, there are fine, good principals out there...I've met some...but the rest I wouldn;t give 2 cents for!
Amusing too is that the school board who was elected by parents and community members has become almost royalty with their "Madame President and Mr. Chair, members of the board."
No wonder a few of them sit on a huge soap box. How 'bout approaching the board and addressing them as "District Representative"?
Whom ever they have heading their meetings and who they voted to sit on their thrown that month as president, is of no concern to me as a parent. They're community members elected as representatives from around our school district to speak for us. They are our representatives; we elected them.
Why are we expected to stand before them with our concerns as though they are head masters, royalty, the all knowing, wisemen, Lords of public education?
In all honest, as much as I hate this phrase also - they are OUR public servants.
So, did you catch the Journal's editorial this morning? About Monica's red herring? Sounds familiar, but I read it here first, days ago. Keep up the good work.
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