[Mpls] Superintendent Peebles

[Pat Bohn]

The whole notion that senior teachers don't teach in the schools with the most need, just isn't true.  If you look at schools like Bethune, North Star, Franklin, Loring and other Northside schools
you will find many teachers with a lot of seniority.  I myself have 19 years seniority as an educational assisstant and have always choosen to work in the schools of my Northside community.

Buzzy Bohn
Folwell

Michael Atherton wrote:

>
> Laura Waterman Wittstock wrote:
>
> >  The inferred education contract is between the parent and
> >  the teacher in the early years and between the student and
> >  the teachers in the later years. That's where the learning
> >  happens. We owe it to our kids to make good faith efforts
> >  and respect our partners in the schools unless one of the
> >  sides fails.
> >
> >  Candidate for Minneapolis Library Board of Trustees
>
> If we continue to elect candidates like Ms. Waterman Wittstock
> we never see improvement in our education system.  Not only
> does she spread propaganda and misinformation about NCLB,
> she also perpetuates a common myth that teachers themselves
> has no responsibility for the system they perpetuate.
>
> Teachers have failed in their responsibilities to our
> students and our society in two fundamental ways.  First,
> they continue to place their personal self-interests over the
> needs of students by perpetuating a seniority system that assigns
> the least experienced teachers to the students in the greatest
> need and secondly, they continue to use instructional methods
> and practices that rely on unexamined and unverified philosophical
> assumptions.
>
> Michael Atherton
> Prospect Park
>
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