If you're not reading the Baltimore Sun's Classroom Connections blog, you should be.
Today, Sara Neufeld, the reporter who posts most of the Baltimore City Public Schools stuff (and seems to have a genuine desire to use her position to start to eliminate the cronyism and ineptitude of North Avenue), received a comment from a Baltimore City teacher about the union contract dispute. It's linked here.
"Voice for School Truth" isn't me, but s/he offers many of the same sentiments that I feel. It's worth a read.
(Surgery update: I leave in 15 minutes)
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best of luck...let me know how it goes! (We missed you at the picket!)
Ruegote
-The Chaplain
hope your bump turns out to be alliterative!
cute...but my sentiments are mutual.
-T.C.
While I appreciate Neufield shining light on some things, I would respect her reporting more if she/the Sun actually chose issues that were meaningful. I am trying to think of a concrete example of things they've reported on in the past that seemed like red herrings to me, but am drawing a blank right now.
How about a solid story on how behavioral incidents are consistently underreported because of the pressure not to be a persistently dangerous school. That true violence like fighting is coded as something like "not following directions" so a school doesn't get a ding in the wrong category.
Or another one I heard last night - that there is only one main person in charge of drop out prevention for the city, but much of this person's time is spent on other things. Is this true? I think Alonso has said he wants to be judged in 4 years by the number of students graduating from HS, so what is the system's comprehensive plan (with funding details) to cut down on the number of students who leave after 9th grade?
Thanks for your comments, and the blog. I read through your entries, and know you are a kindred spirit. It is tough work, huh? And their are rewards. I just don't ever want to become jaded like some of the veterans are.
Thanks so much for the vote of confidence in our blog.
I've just posted a response on our site (www.baltimoresun.com/classroom) to the comments about my coverage from the anonymous teacher here. Bottom line is, we want to write about the issues that are relevant to teachers, but we're not mindreaders, nor are we in your classrooms all day -- so we need to hear from you.
Sara Neufeld
Baltimore Sun
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