Tonight that the Huntsville City Schools Board of Education, the board presented a resolution to honor those individuals who are retiring from Huntsville City Schools this year. The resolution was read at the beginning of the “Celebrations” part of the meeting that they have at the beginning of most of their meetings. The resolut [...]
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177 (And Counting) Volunteer to Leave
Tonight that the Huntsville City Schools Board of Education, the board presented a resolution to honor those individuals who are retiring from Huntsville City Schools this year. The resolution was read at the beginning of the “Celebrations” part of the meeting that they have at the beginning of most of their meetings. The resolut [...]
STAR Testing A District To Death
When the superintendent wishes to throw himself a party, he tends to do it right. Last Thursday during the Board’s Work Session meeting (which they call “work sessions” so they can exclude public comments at the end), the Superintendent had Alabama Representatives singing his praises for his PTA Superintendent of the Year a [...]
Double Standards Continue For Teach F...
Since Dr. Wardynski arrived, the district has operated under two sets of rules and according to two standards. Hypocrisy had been normalized here.
We’ve seen it in response to the rules applied to The Pinnacle Schools with regards to their staff.
We’ve seen this double standard when we see that the superintendent’s evaluat [...]
Another Bad Week For Teachers and Pri...
When your goal is to replace as many qualified teachers as possible, even leaving them with the last week of school to celebrate and say goodbye to their kids is just too rich an opportunity to pass up. After all, if you can get one final kick in as someone is walking out the door, perhaps they’ll keep on going.
And so on Wednesday of [...]
An Appropriate Education
So there’s another board meeting tomorrow night at 5:30pm at the Merts Center, 200 White Street. I’ll be there, and supposing that there aren’t any technical issues that halt the broadcast as there was two weeks ago, you can watch it at home on ETV (Comcast 17, Knology 99), and at the Huntsville City Schools website. I̵ [...]
New and Improved: TFA Is Neither
You remember when you were a child going to a store, and you saw a toy you wanted? Perhaps there are just two on the shelf. Maybe two Lukes from Star Wars. They look exactly the same to you, except for two small differences. One of them, for some reason, cost thirty cents more than the other.
In those days, thirty cents made a world of diffe [...]
Teach For America: Coming to Your Chi...
There is an idea in this town that if it isn’t happening at my school, I don’t need to worry about it.
There are a lot of reasons for this. One might be that people are simply too busy to keep up with more than one school. As a parent who has children at two different elementary schools, I really understand this one. Even though [...]
Teachers Ordered To Learn From TFA
So today is a professional development day in Huntsville City Schools, and some teachers across the district are being told that they must learn to teach from teachers who have five weeks of training.
How’s that for a morale booster?
Dr. Wardynski’s been quite busy lately telling the city that the schools used to be corrupt.
But w [...]
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