There are between 6,000 and 7,000 teachers in the APS.
Between them they have
Winston Brooks' plan is;
- 70,000 years of current teaching experience,
- the education, experience and expertise to make sound decisions, and
- intimate knowledge of their students, their schools, and their communities.
cut teachers out of the decision making process entirely;
along with every other APS stakeholder,
in favor of a decision making process that includes
only himself and a handful of other senior administrators,
none of whom have any current teaching experience at all.
This plan makes sense where, exactly?
except in the leadership of the APS
and on the Planet Crack?
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and one of his top administrators follows him close behind in the "lacking" of teaching experience... Diego "Dickie" Gallegos. I believe he taught for a whopping 4 years and has NEVER been a principal or assistant principal at a school. Yet he's the Assistant Superintendent responsible for those schools that are floundering at the bottom of the bottom (test score-wise). South Valley schools have their issues, but not having strong leadership ranks up in the top three. I work in the Rio cluster and many of us think he's nothing but a joke.We work our butts off and all we ever hear is that it's not nearly enough. I could easily work in another cluster, but believe in what I do where I am.
A newly hired principal at a big APS High school only has 3 years teaching experience, but is quick to chop teachers on evaluations and tell them "how to do it right".
Incidently, this new principal hasn;t been working in a school for almost one year, and was a VP before that, yet earns the top billing job at that High school.
Not to mention the notorious acts many of us remember that he/she perpetrated at Highland High school against a certain group of minority students a few years ago.
And yet he/she has a promtion.
He/she is given more pwer.
He/she might make Superintendent someday, though already beyond his/her capabilities.
This is not opinion, this is fact collected and multi-witnessed.
We take VP to become principles to become Assoc Supes, to become the head honcho.
And all I can ask myself...with all the talented, experiences teachers, and even some VPs in APS, why do we promote people like that one, and W. Brooks?
It's a question for the ages!
On that last comment, normally I'd give someone a chance, but charactor flaws like selling out, abuse of power, and beating down on minority kids simply doesn't "change".
I know the subject of those comments. She can be lovely sometimes, then be bending and breaking you the next, for no apparent reasoning other than she's aggravated about something else.
But there's more to the mix than personality to make even an adequate principle. Unfortunatrly this one has little knowledge of investigation, didn't run the budget properly in her old position, and has "changed the story" on numerous occasions (some call it "lying").
Nevertheless, she's not a bad person, but she shouldn't be in that position, and her qualifications are certainly lacking.
the question as I see it... is there some kind of "Back scratching" going on, or what to put her in that position?
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