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Teachers Labeled Ineffective Should Check the Facts
The Hall Monitor Blog out of Gainesville, Georgia, offers some good advice about teachers victimized by "teacher layoffs, particularly for teachers labeled "ineffective" but are promised future consideration for job if they resign. But if you resign, you probably lose unemployment benefits.
by Hallconcern
Another problem for all of you who have been let go is your superintendent has labeled you all as "ineffective" in a public forum. It seems, as others have pointed out, that by resigning you are admitting this. What data was used to make the determination that you are "ineffective?" Are you on a PDP? Do you have NIs on your evaluations? Have all of your evaluations even been completed? Do you have letters of reprimand? Are your test scores lower than those of your peers? I'm betting in the majority of these cases, the answer is no. You are simply being screwed over in order to expedite this process for the folks at central office. It's unfair, because there are tenured teachers who may be less effective than you, who should probably be let go, but administrators by and large don't do the work necessary to get rid of an ineffective tenured teacher.
Here's a little something you might not realize. My understanding is anyone who is non-renewed has a right to request in writing from the Superintendent the reasons for the non-renewal. They will also tell you that you have no right to a hearing in front of the board. This is not entirely true. While you do not have an automatic right to a hearing as if you were tenured, a good lawyer should know how to force a hearing. You lose this right if you resign.
I urge you to do extensive research before signing anything or accepting what you are told at face value. They are counting on your ignorance! They are capitalizing on the fact that you are upset and scared. Check to see if resigning makes you ineligible for unemployment benefits. Call the labor department and ask. Resigning really doesn't do you any good because most employment applications now ask if you resigned in lieu of non-renewal, and if you lie on an application you can lose your certificate. Go as soon as possible and ask for a copy of your personnel file from your principal and the one kept at Central Office. You will want that to help dispute the fact that you have been labeled as an ineffective teacher by Hall County. Remember, if you were truly ineffective, there should be documentation and you should have been fired.
No doubt we will hear plenty of excuses from 711 Green as well as the normal ad hominen drivel, but you all need to be very sure of where you stand before going along with anything they say.
Good luck to everyone negatively impacted by this. Please feel free to share your stories here.
What a great example of character and competency for our children.
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Hall County Monitor
2009-10-27
http://thehallmonitor.wordpress.com/
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