junecleaver's kitchen

Laying off teachers to pay for a huge deficit in the school district makes as much sense as the woman who gelded her $9,000 champion stallion & then tried to sell him because "I didn't want him to be able to breed again"; yet she wanted to make money by having a horse breeding ranch.

Teachers are the heartbeat of any school district. When they are allowed to do their jobs, children learn! When politics & micromanaging get in the way, they cannot teach, thus students do not learn. It's that simple! But when the latter happens, it's the teachers who get blamed. When politics get in the way (as in the case of the DISD missing money), teachers end up paying the price. When you already have a below par school district, how much sense does it make to get rid of the educators? The reason DISD is below par is because of the administrators, not the teachers! The majority of the administrators have never been inside a classroom. They have no idea what teachers put up with on a daily basis. The superintendent & all the rest of the administrators are not responsible for teaching the students. They don't sit down on the floor with a 5 year old & read a story. They don't check heads for lice. They don't comfort the kindergartener who is away from home for the first time. They don't corral a bunch of hyper 4th graders in an attempt to get them on a bus for a field trip. And, they don't put up with irate parents who prefer to yell at the teachers rather than listen to reason. How many times do you hear an adult talk about their school days & say, "I remember our wonderful superintendent". No, you never hear that. But you do hear, "I remember my 5th grade (or whatever year it was) teacher who encouraged me to write," or you hear "I remember how my high school math teacher inspired me to become an engineer". We even remember less than favorite teachers. But we never remember a superintendent or anyone else on a school board. That's because they aren't hands on & thus should not take any credit for the education students receive. However, when a district gets the way DISD is, they need to look at themselves & see how micromanaging & politicking only gets in the way of the teachers.

These administrators sit in their nice cushy offices, receive (notice not earn) their large salaries & have the gall to tell teachers, "You may lose your job because of our incompetence". How much sense does that make? DISD is already a below par school district, imagine what it will be after many of the teachers lose their jobs. Might as well change the name from Dallas Independent School District to Dallas Public Daycare.