There’s an excellent conversation happening on yesterday’s post Caveat Emptor Computers in the Classroom. If you care to know what your children’s teachers really think about the digital conversion, give it a look. In addition to those details, there was one question in particular that stood out to me.
What else should we b [...]
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What Else Should We Be Doing To Save ...
There’s an excellent conversation happening on yesterday’s post Caveat Emptor Computers in the Classroom. If you care to know what your children’s teachers really think about the digital conversion, give it a look. In addition to those details, there was one question in particular that stood out to me.
What else should we b [...]
Hiring Technology Coordinators But No...
So there was a Special Called meeting of the Huntsville City Schools Board of Education today to expand, yet again, the central office, but still no hiring of SPED Instructional Assistants required to create safe classrooms for special needs children. Once again, Dr. Wardynski proves that he cares more about technology than children by spend [...]
Nepotism, Favoritism, and Intimidatio...
Yesterday I wrote about the decision of the Huntsville City School’s Board of Education to subvert the democratic process by restricting who can and cannot run for school board seats. In short, if you’re an employee of the district, no one in your family may run for a school board seat. If they do, and if they are elected, you mu [...]
Huntsville City School BOE’s Be...
With unanimous approval by the board of education, without raising a single point of discussion, the board of education approved Dr. Wardynski’s recommendation to hire Elizabeth Hachar as principal of Butler High School on June 21st. Not one person on the board publicly asked any questions about her before approving the recommendation. [...]
Wardynski Aces Personalized Evaluatio...
Last night the board offered Dr. Wardynski a rating of 92.2 on the five goals that they established for him back in October. Teachers’ salaries, which were frozen at a board meeting in April 21, 2011, remain frozen. Teachers’ starting salaries, which were set at the state minimum, remain at the state minimum. Dr. Wardynski has hi [...]
Firing and Hiring Principals
So the superintendent has been on a hiring binge of late for principals. He has also been actively firing and moving current principals out of their positions and into new ones without preamble, preparation, or pause.
To what end?
Well, as with everything the superintendent does, these moves are entirely about control. In order to control th [...]
Internal Reviews Only Review The Past
No, old man, you have not hurt these people if they are of good conscience. But you must understand, sir, that a person is either with this court or he must be counted against it, there be no road between. This is a sharp time, now, a precise time–we live no longer in the dusky afternoon when evil mixed itself with good and befuddled t [...]
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