I just looked up and noticed its 2013 which means that a vast
majority of ®eformers have earned tenure as ®eformers while achieving various
levels of effectiveness.
Think of your favourite ®eformer, what their goal was when they started,
did they reach their goal? Is your
favourite ®eformer still fighting for their cause after 2 or 3 years of proving
they were ineffective at creating the change they said they would? Did they get
fired or get tenure?
Considering the
disproportionate funding in favour of ®eformers vs the others, they cannot cite a lack of funds. Has your favourite ®eformer backed down a little bit in their
rhetoric and tried to temper expectations like a corporation before a bad
earnings report? Have you ever
heard of a ®eformer being fired for poor performance? notyetLAUSD proposes a 4 year tenure track for
®eformers working inside and outside LAUSD. If you can’t make the changes you want, move over and let
someone else try. Fired!
In other news:
Green Dot charter just announced they are going to reconstitute
themselves at Locke High School in an effort to show the use of self-immolation
and, an undying faith in reincarnation of the self, is needed to create meaningful
change at high need public schools.
A lame donkey compromise:
Can we just get over tenure talks and LIFO, move tenure to 4-6 years
with no more than two school transfers and 3 consecutive years at the site
where tenure is given? Can we all
agree that it sucks when a great young teacher is laid off and a crappy old one
is kept, but over the past 4 years of laying off less experienced teachers and
concentrating its number of experienced teachers, LAUSD was able to boost API
at a far faster rate than other districts. (I know most of the boost over the past few years has been
due to increases in the use of the CMA, but I’d like to live in a fantasy world
where having more students in classes with long-term committed teachers might
have had an effect too). I’m not
opposed to the district going back using incentives at hard to staff schools to
prevent the need for a Reed settlement.
