[Mpls] teachers bumping

[David Wilson]

Henry Ford's bitter fight against the union has been transmogrified to
current day Minneapolis Public Schools.  Why am I not surprised?

David Wilson
Loring Park



On Fri, 2 Jul 2004, Dan McGuire wrote:

>     I just heard about another turn of events.  This week, about 200 MPS elementary teachers with high seniority who also
> were licensed in other areas have been reassigned to the other license area jobs, regardless of whether or not they have
> experience in those areas or an interest in working in those areas.  That means that a 3rd grade teacher who got an art
> degree twenty five years ago and then got married and raised some children,  never taught as an art teacher, but then ten
> years later got an elementary certification and has since been teaching 3rd grade for fifteen years has been reassigned to
> an art classroom in a building other than the one she has been teaching in for those fifteen years.  I spoke to three
> teachers in similar situations today.
>     Sounds to me like those who were trying to take career choices out of the hands of teachers and put the control in the
> hands of the administration found a way to do it (some have suggested that was one of the unstated motivations for the
> school closing plan of last winter.)  This is not good for anybody but control freaks.  Chalk one up for Jennings, Audrey
> Johnson, and Pawlenty; erase about 200 for teachers, students and families.
>
> Dan McGuire
> Ericsson
>
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