Education Matters: Greene and the district don't deny Corcoran had teacher removed from the classroom

Education Matters: Greene and the district don't deny Corcoran had teacher removed from the classroom

Greene and the district don't deny Corcoran had teacher removed from the classroom

 Where not a lawyer, it seems to me Amy Donofrio is going to own the district as she sues it into oblivion. Corcoran tells the Times Union he had Greene remove her from the classroom. While the district sticks with her, she is under investigation (for what) story. 

I spoke with a school board member on Sunday, and they said it was absurd that Corcoran was telling people he had her removed though it sure seems like the right hand, the super is keeping the left hand, the board, in the dark.

  

So just like that, the commissioner says jump, and our super asks how high, though I guess we shouldn't be CONTINUE READING: Education Matters: Greene and the district don't deny Corcoran had teacher removed from the classroom

Education Matters: Greene ignores CDC guidelines, continues to put people in jeopardy + What base is Green playing to?

Education Matters: Greene ignores CDC guidelines, continues to put people in jeopardy

Greene ignores CDC guidelines, continues to put people in jeopardy

First, let me say I am over masks. I am over wearing them, I am over telling kids to wear them, and I want nothing more than for them to be in the rear window of history. That being said, I will continue to wear them; you see, I don't know most of the people out there and don't trust the ones I don't know to do the right thing, and Jacksonville's vaccination stats, that say only a little over a third of the city (41 percent over 18) is vaccinated, despite there being plenty of supply has borne that out. Even though the CDC says going maskless to large evens is ill advisable and that Jacksonville is still at substantial risk, Greene has said @&%$ it and made masks optional for graduation ceremonies.

 What the CDC says about large gatherings, including graduations.

https://www.cdc.gov/coronavirus/2019-ncov/your-health/large-gatherings

Here are Florida and Jacksonville's vaccination numbers.

https://covid.cdc.gov/covid-data-tracker/#county-view

It's like we have run a race and decided to stop when  CONTINUE READING: Education Matters: Greene ignores CDC guidelines, continues to put people in jeopardy

What base is Green playing to? It certainly isn't public education

If you are over sixteen and haven't got vaccinated yet, that's a choice you have made. Greene has now made masks optional for graduation ceremonies. Does this decision support people who believe in vaccinations and masks or those that don't?

The change the name ordeal has gone on for nearly a year, racists and deniers have come out of the woodwork over and over again. Robert. E. Lee is an option to change the name of Robert E. Lee too. Has this process benefitted the people who want the names of those schools to change or those who want to live in a time when children of color were second-class citizens?

Jeb Bush is the man responsible for most of the school reforms of the last two decades, A-F school grades, privatization, high stakes testing, and blame the teacher evaluations, or you know the things that pro-public education people are against. So when Green joins Bush's Cheifs-of Change, is she telling the people who CONTINUE READING: What base is Green playing to? It certainly isn't public education

Education Matters: Why does Greene struggle with race relations? (draft)

Education Matters: Why does Greene struggle with race relations? (draft)

Why does Greene struggle with race relations? (draft)

Why does our African American superintendent struggle so mightily with race relations? Well, the answer is simple, she doesn't see children as black, brown, or white, she sees them as test scores and she probably thinks everyone else should as well. 

On the heels of the districts disastrous mental health rollout, which sought to co-op black history month and led to several school walkouts, the district doubled down by allowing racists to spread their hate at meetings about changing the names of schools named after confederate era figures and then allowed a teacher to be targeted by them. Rather than stand up for the teacher, they inexplicably later suspended her. 

This change the name of schools named after slavers and traitors has just about reached the ten-month mark, which has done nobody any good. I believe it wasn't done last summer because the district didn't want to do anything to jeopardize the referendum. 

They reasoned it was okay with letting black and brown children continue to attend schools named after people who thought they were sub-human if ignoring it brought in extra revenue. But JC, the referendum vote CONTINUE READING: Education Matters: Why does Greene struggle with race relations? (draft)

Education Matters: DCPS has a total failure of leadership - https://jaxkidsmatter.blogspot.com/2021/03/dcps-has-total-failure-of-leadership.html

Education Matters: Superintendent Greene says she supports staff, but her actions often speak louder than her words. + How teachers elected DeSantis and may do so again

Education Matters: Superintendent Greene says she supports staff, but her actions often speak louder than her words.

Superintendent Greene says she supports staff, but her actions often speak louder than her words.

Superintendent Green recently sent me a note. She was replying to something I had sent to the school board about the frustration so many teachers are experiencing. 

Thank you for sharing the posts you are seeing on Facebook. I understand how difficult this year is and the impact recent events have had our teachers and other staff.   We will continue to seek ways to support them throughout the year.  

It’s funny/not funny because I am not sure if she really understands how difficult it has been for some. If she did, that makes many of her choices that more inexplicable. Likewise, I haven’t felt the support from the district either something many of my peers can also relate to. 

Willfully out of touch, painfully ignorant, and disingenuous came to mind after I read her note. That being said, what if she was being sincere, what if she really thinks she understands how difficult the year has been for so many and thinks she has been supporting staff. What if?  

So being the helpful guy I am, I sent her some suggestions. If you have anything you think I have missed and CONTINUE READING: Education Matters: Superintendent Greene says she supports staff, but her actions often speak louder than her words.   

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Education Matters: Greene just can't be honest about the pandemic.

Education Matters: Greene just can't be honest about the pandemic.

Greene just can't be honest about the pandemic.

In a community meeting, Greene said cases of COVID exploded in January because we had just returned from Winter Break. She showed a graph backing this up too. The thing is cases exploded because the district changed the way it revealed cases. Basically, up to that point, we had been lowballing the numbers, and it was a Christmas miracle that they finally decided to be more honest.   

From the Times Union, 

Wednesday evening, when Duval Schools families refreshed the district’s COVID-19 dashboard, they saw a massive spike in cases. But the district says it’s because of the new, more proactive way they're reporting things, not a school-specific case surge. 

Instead of waiting for confirmation from the local Department of Health, Duval County Public Schools announced Wednesday that it will start reporting potential COVID-19 cases into its system as soon as officials become aware of a case.

The change took effect Wednesday night, with 170 new cases populating for one day.

The district said in a post to its website that this will help families and the community make informed decisions CONTINUE READING: Education Matters: Greene just can't be honest about the pandemic.

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