Teacher fired for improper filing of correlated objectives
Sequoyah, OKLAHOMA (TWP)
Veteran Sequoyah High School history teacher Ingrid Ketcher was fired after twenty-nine years of service with the district. In that time, Ketcher, a six-time teacher-of-the-year winner, nevertheless, failed to report mandated data and test scores and maintain records of required tests she had given, thereby screwing any chances for her students’ future success.
Principal Suwayne Eddy said that a recent clearing of file cabinets to make room for new cheap ones purchased from a school board member’s brother’s company revealed that Ketcher’s files included units on important periods in history, research, writing prompts, and other fluff but were “totally lacking in many years of mandated EOI practice tests, scores, plans for remediation, and department-correlated objectives matched to multiple-choice items from the state standards packet test set.”
At the board meeting immediately following the announcement of Ketcher’s dismissal, more than 200 of her past