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Monday, June 6, 2011

School Board to Kids — Sorry that’s not our job! Go back to class and quit bugging us! | Reflections on Teaching

School Board to Kids — Sorry that’s not our job! Go back to class and quit bugging us! | Reflections on Teaching

School Board to Kids — Sorry that’s not our job! Go back to class and quit bugging us!

As you saw in this post, Thursday’s SCUSD Board meeting was a highly attended and highly emotional event, with dozens of students pleading with the board to remove the current administrative team at Hiram Johnson High School. Word has begun leaking out from the district administration and school board members that in spite of these pleas, the administrative team will stay in place. Six more teachers were administratively transferred out from the school on Friday after the board meeting.

This begs the question, what does it take to change a situation that is truly toxic to students and the adults that