It's been that way for a LONG time. Not just at West Philadelphia High
either but all over the district.
At least you don't have to go inside and spend your day in that sort of
environment, be trained and re-trained and re-trained in the name of "School
Reform."
OR
Be held accountable if they don't do well on standardized tests; have to
present your credentials to proven "highly qualified" to be in there and try
to teach them.
OR
See no consequences for the students or their parents; just you and/or your
administrator.
This is how people are treated who WANT to be there and want to teach.
We shall see how the public reacts when contract negotiations start soon; as
the district tries to pare down even more of our rights and heap more
responsibility on us.
On 3/12/07 1:23 PM, "Kyle Cassidy" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> I don't know if it's still the case, but walking along 48th between
> locust and spruce during school hours used to be an abuse gauntlet of
> epic proportions. At any given time there would be several kids hanging
> out of different windows yelling at me as I walked past. I did that
> maybe twice and then permanently re-routed around that place whenever I
> needed to go to Radio Shack or the Asian market that used to be on
> Spruce. At about that time one of my friends did his student teaching
> there and it seems it was similar on the inside. I photographed Paul
> Vallas at a different high school and was rather surprised to see that
> in conjunction with metal detectors they had ROTC stationed at each
> hallway intersection.
>
> I heard on WHYY this morning that the Teacher Safety Hotline
> (215-400-stop) had logged fifty complaints of student/teacher assaults
> in 7 days.
>
> I'm starting to feel old. Why, back in my day.....
>
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