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Will the person who sent me the info that he or she works at a school that forbids teachers to sit at their desks during instructional time pleasetell me who the principal is? It strikes me that this principal is just the kind of huckleberry that needs a crisp missive from the kid here. I excel at crisp missives to principals. lee
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Bruce is not alone.
Teachers at my school are not allowed to sit at their desks during instructional time.
If you are observed sitting at your desk enough times, that alone is prima facie evidence that you are a poor teacher.
I swear by all that is holy that I am telling the truth. I am afraid to give my name for out of justifiable fear of retaliation.
We are treated like children.
I am ashamed that I dont have the courage yet to speak out openly. I figure by this spring, I will be ready to document this whole sordid mess. I am not confident anything will really change except that by then, I will be unemployed after over a decade of successful teaching.
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Oh, for God's sake. Who would believe that such creatures prowl the halls of high schools monitoring the seating arrangements of teachers? This guy's name must be Kafka.I was a psychiatric nurse for a while. This principal needs a course of electroshock therapy. I'll help hold him down. lee
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If what Deepcover says is true, Hutek is perfect for the ROSSAC building. That place is full of people who are ineffectual, but they tell teachers how to do everything. I wonder how those people look themselves in the mirror. Who would want to be a part of that bunch? Is money that important to someone that they want to make a little more and go down there?
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Well, we know money's primary to Ms. Elia. She's snookered the board into paying her $300,000 a year. Not even Griffin and Valdes demurred. And Elia's revving up to purloin more tax money. Watch her find another area where teachers' work merits her bonus pay. And watch the somnolent, gutless board ratify the scheme. We need some new board members. lee
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The Principal at Armwood was identified as the one who called a faculty meeting on the day the teachers had planned their protest.
It has been alleged this meeting was unnecessary and called specifically to keep his faculty away from the front lines. The content of the meeting appears to support this allegation.
Mr. Hutek has been mentioned in many conversations as a vindictive, ineffective principal who is believed to have ROSSAC aspirations. From the tone of Bruce's email he would fit in very nicely.
Armwood is in chaos. It reflects the weak appointments glossed over by the Board.
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Posted by deepcover to Lee Drury De Cesare's Casting-Room Couch at 8:33 AM
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Mr. Hutek, did you call a meeting to block the faculty from attending the protest of the extra class imposed by Ms. Elia? Did she suggest the maneuver, or did you devise it?
Did you think this little scam would enhance your chances of being recruited for a berth at $100,000-plus sinecure among the other ill-credentialed buddies and sycophants of Elia that hunker down in the ROSSAC bunker?
We all know that home-ec, early childhood, and kindergarten teachers (Kipley,
The number of pricey consultants that must come in at taxpayer expense to give ROSSAC inepts flash-card seminars on how to do their jobs tells the world of the general incompetence of ROSSAC denizens. Are you klutz enough to make the cut? Taxpayers pay double for these ROSSAC misfits you pine to join: the $100,000-plus salary and, on top of that, consultants to ride to the rescue when feeble administrative brains screw up.
Think of the meltdown in the busing department with a $350,000 consultant ferried in. Let that be your role model. Don't overperform and earn the antipathy of the mess-up ROSSAC Katzenjammer Kids. You will never get in by showing you are above the lower quartile of the Standford Binet.
Ponder these issues carefully. You may be better off at Armwood torturing teachers and running the school like it's Chattahoochee, your current regimen one understands. Remember what Howdy Doodie said of this dilemma: Shouldn't we "bear those ills we have/Than fly to others we know not of"?
Why isn't your Armwood principal job dreamy? Is it in the stars or in yourself? Does chaos exist at Armwood because you are dense, mean, and have no brains to spare to manage, or is it because the stars realign themselves in a nutty fashion in the heavens about the school? These are things to ponder, verily.
Did the history department chair assist in this dirty little retaliation trick against Burnham for using his Constitutional right to address elected officials for redress of grievance? Did you consider that you punished Burnham inappropriately for addressing protests to the board since he
is one of the teachers whom the extra class affects?
What is the history department’s rat-fink head’s name and what does he look like? I am thinking of doing a voodoo doll in his honor and sending it to the Armwood faculty lounge for the teachers to stick pins in. I would appreciate a picture of this Judas Iscariot. I go for verisimilitude.
Give me the names of those first-and second-year teachers who scooped up Burnham’s honors classes while pretending they did not know the source of their good luck. I want to come over from the beach to Seffner and give the little traitors to the teaching profession a tongue lashing.
Did you know that Bruce is a
Are you, sir, the author of the piece below from the Armwood homepage that shows you don’t know comma rules? This is an unsuitable affliction for the principal of a high school charged with instilling this lore into students before they graduate. Or do you make comma errors to harmonize with Ms. Elia’s similar affliction to up your chances of snagging a ROSSAC perch?
Pray accept my abiding contempt, Mr. Hutek, and also my fervent wish that you will undergo anaphylactic shock when next you imbibe Viagra.
lee drury de cesare
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Armwood opened in September 1984. The school is named for Blanche Armwood, who served as Supervisor of Negro Schools, and was known as an outstanding community organizer, humanitarian, and teacher, who passed the state teacher exam at the age of twelve. The school colors were decided by a committee of students, who chose
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The comma after “Schools” is redundant; it splits compound verb “served” and “was known.”
The comma after teacher is redundant. It separates an adjectival clause from its antecedent.
The comma after “gray” is dead wrong. It cuts off a trailing adverbial clause that is restrictive and that occupies its normal syntactical position at the end of the main clause.
Here’s how to rid the paragraph of wimpy passive verbs:
“Blanche Armwood’s name adorns Armwood.”
“The community knew Armwood as an outstanding community leader….”
“A student committee decided the colors.”
“Armwood students came from two schools.”
Slow Learner Hutek gets Grade of F. Hutek is to report to study hall for two weeks of deep comma study. Teacher Lee
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Folks: Trust me. I have lived much longer than you have. I have seen more. I know more. I am wiser. I am cuter.
One thing I know for sure that you can back down bullies wherever you find them if you stand your ground. Giving in to these cowards just makes them bolder.
You must fight back.
We won't prevail until enough people stand up and roar.
We have but one life to live. Let's live it on the ramparts, shoot birds at bullies, and replace the poltroons on the school board.
Print out my email to Hutek and tack it up around the halls. Slip one under his door every morning. This is what the Resistance did in Germany. See where Hitler ended up.
lee
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