My district's dirty little secret . . .

I've written a lot about evaluations recently. One of the arguments administrators have made to me when I would talk about evaluations for a teacher, some would become very indignant and proclaim that they are evaluated every single year.

Except they weren't.

In fact, many have not been evaluated for years, some not even since the 1990's! I'll say this about the new superintendent is that he is unearthing a lot of the dysfunction and lack of accountability across the board. There have been rumors and whispers that administrators (hopefully some of the worst, like the one who has been caught routinely sleeping at her desk w/pictures to prove it, instead of doing her job) will be out of a job within the next year or so.

I can't remember when the last administrator has been let go for incompetence. A huge reason for this is because there have been no evaluations and no documentation, which an attorney would have a field day with. It makes all the sense in the world now why things are so very messed up in this district.

I'm glad that the very bright light on past incompetence is happening and that the focus isn't just on so-called "bad teachers."