It is your one chance to be heard, or at least seen! Wear black to the board meeting tonight! Speak up! Bring signs! Ask questions! Show up! May the force be with you!
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What a pathetic show of strength at the school board meeting! To those who plan to continue to cower in the teachers' lounges asking "why do they do this to us?" and "what are we to do, someone should say something," shame on you! Your apathy allows the situation to be the way it is. You don't speak up for yourselves and it shows when school board meeting after school board meeting there are an astonishingly minimal number of teachers speaking out on the insanity which takes place in our schools. I am tired of the hoop jumping that has been created under the current administration, but I am more tired of the whining, complaining, and absolute lack of action by the teachers. Until you actually have the conviction to take action, don't post another comment or utter another complaint in the hallways of our schools.
I'm in agreement! What happened tonight?! Where was everyone?! What a pathetic show of "strength". Apathetic teachers are just as bad as back-peddling Superintendents.
We can't turn on each other! Think you need to forgive the elementary teachers, some had parent conferences until six this evening or at the very least late this afternoon. Kind of hard to leave work late, go home and make dinner, get family cared for and get to School Board after such a long day. Not an excuse just a reality check for tonight's meeting.
A reality check is there are 1600 teachers. You get one tenth to show up at a meeting and that is 160 teachers. Even if you get one hundredth of the teachers to show up, that is still 16 teachers. There were two talking tonight, and one of the two was not opposed to the plans per say. So you basically had one teacher, one, speaking up for all of you blogging cowards. You don't speak up. It's as simple as that. No one cares what your excuse is, it is either you don't care or you agree with the plan. If you were so passionately opposed to this proposal and others, which many posting here claim to be, you would be out in force and making your voice heard. Except you are not, and have done nothing but turn this blog into a virtual teachers' lounge.
No excuses. If you're serious, you find time to show up when it counts, no matter how long the day. I've seen Board meetings in other jurisdictions last from 5PM until 11PM with a full house of teachers who had been on duty since 7:15AM and a public comment slate full of parents who came out in support because they saw teachers they trusted taking a stand.
The "reality check" is that if no one makes time to be at the Board meetings, then the Super and the Board can say that the anonymous whinging on "ACPSUnderground" represents a very vocal, very bitter, but very small group of malcontents who just fear change and can't handle the stress of transformation. Who was at the meeting tonight to contradict that view?
Congratulations, Anonymous. You really came through for us. Or should we blame that other jerk, Anonymous, for letting us down? No, I think it was Anonymous, Anonymous, and Anonymous's fault for acting tough and cyber-stroking each other on a chat board but being too lazy or too cowardly to show up in real life.
I am one of those that didn't show, and honestly thought so many others would be showing that there wasn't a point in me attending. Pathetic, yes? Kind of like people who assume others are calling 911 when a horrible event has occurred. This weeks agenda seemed to state that tonight's calendar meeting was informational and I am unclear on the difference between that and an action item. I will attend the next meeting (signing up to speak) and will no longer assume that others have already dialed 911. Thank you for setting this blog up, and thanks to the 2 teachers who spoke.
Is it possible to get a copy of the Discovery Bridge Survey under Freedom of Information? It should be a public document. We might find its contents interesting.
Next blog entry: ALEXANDRIA TEACHERS ALL BLOG AND NO BITE!
ReplyDeleteWhat a pathetic show of strength at the school board meeting! To those who plan to continue to cower in the teachers' lounges asking "why do they do this to us?" and "what are we to do, someone should say something," shame on you! Your apathy allows the situation to be the way it is. You don't speak up for yourselves and it shows when school board meeting after school board meeting there are an astonishingly minimal number of teachers speaking out on the insanity which takes place in our schools. I am tired of the hoop jumping that has been created under the current administration, but I am more tired of the whining, complaining, and absolute lack of action by the teachers. Until you actually have the conviction to take action, don't post another comment or utter another complaint in the hallways of our schools.
I'm in agreement! What happened tonight?! Where was everyone?! What a pathetic show of "strength". Apathetic teachers are just as bad as back-peddling Superintendents.
ReplyDeleteWe can't turn on each other! Think you need to forgive the elementary teachers, some had parent conferences until six this evening or at the very least late this afternoon. Kind of hard to leave work late, go home and make dinner, get family cared for and get to School Board after such a long day. Not an excuse just a reality check for tonight's meeting.
ReplyDeleteA reality check is there are 1600 teachers. You get one tenth to show up at a meeting and that is 160 teachers. Even if you get one hundredth of the teachers to show up, that is still 16 teachers. There were two talking tonight, and one of the two was not opposed to the plans per say. So you basically had one teacher, one, speaking up for all of you blogging cowards. You don't speak up. It's as simple as that. No one cares what your excuse is, it is either you don't care or you agree with the plan. If you were so passionately opposed to this proposal and others, which many posting here claim to be, you would be out in force and making your voice heard. Except you are not, and have done nothing but turn this blog into a virtual teachers' lounge.
ReplyDeleteI think many teachers and staff in ACPS fear repercussions for speaking out publicly.
ReplyDeleteexcuse #1.
ReplyDeleteNo excuses. If you're serious, you find time to show up when it counts, no matter how long the day. I've seen Board meetings in other jurisdictions last from 5PM until 11PM with a full house of teachers who had been on duty since 7:15AM and a public comment slate full of parents who came out in support because they saw teachers they trusted taking a stand.
ReplyDeleteThe "reality check" is that if no one makes time to be at the Board meetings, then the Super and the Board can say that the anonymous whinging on "ACPSUnderground" represents a very vocal, very bitter, but very small group of malcontents who just fear change and can't handle the stress of transformation. Who was at the meeting tonight to contradict that view?
Congratulations, Anonymous. You really came through for us. Or should we blame that other jerk, Anonymous, for letting us down? No, I think it was Anonymous, Anonymous, and Anonymous's fault for acting tough and cyber-stroking each other on a chat board but being too lazy or too cowardly to show up in real life.
I am one of those that didn't show, and honestly thought so many others would be showing that there wasn't a point in me attending. Pathetic, yes? Kind of like people who assume others are calling 911 when a horrible event has occurred. This weeks agenda seemed to state that tonight's calendar meeting was informational and I am unclear on the difference between that and an action item.
ReplyDeleteI will attend the next meeting (signing up to speak) and will no longer assume that others have already dialed 911.
Thank you for setting this blog up, and thanks to the 2 teachers who spoke.
Is it possible to get a copy of the Discovery Bridge Survey under Freedom of Information? It should be a public document. We might find its contents interesting.
ReplyDelete