School Board approves Staff Reduction Plan

[Bulldog 92]

How about the district hiring an ex permanent sub, uncertified administrator with no experience, who has never taught in a classroom only in resource, and is non-tenured, to run the largest department in the high school? (special ed has 60 teachers) What a slap in the face to those that have an administrative degree! Wait until the due process law suits start rolling in because she does not know what she is doing and doesn't know how to handle people and kids. All for $75,000 :cry:

1)What do you think Resource is? Teaching in the classroom and supporting the classroom curriculum with adaptions to the instructional practices of a teacher and information presented in multiple ways so that students may access the information in a way that meets their learning needs, daily and in their own classroom. Uh yeah... all core subjects and multiple ways!!! That is teaching and what regular instructional teachers should also be doing. Hard work people!

2)What does tenured mean? Some of the best teachers are non-tenured and some of the best teachers are "ex permanent sub"s.

3) Maybe the "largest department in the high school" needs what this individual has to offer, many departments could benefit from this individuals commitment to WHS. Certification is required upon starting a position and not a qualification for an interview or being granted a position. Patience, often this forum supports the condemnation of change. Get used to it, change can be good.

4) 75,000 is not enough for that job!

[nowinvolved]

1) A resource teacher is a pull out situation. They do not teach in what is considered a regular/mainstream classroom. They often only have very few students (8-10 in the middle schools), but the many I have experience with, use this time slated for re-teaching, reinforcing the classroom curriculum, or to help with homework are in fact NOT using this "resource time" appropriately. Some others here can add personal experiences to support this. Some resource teachers are also inclusion teachers. They are in teamed with classroom/mainstream teachers. They are in classrooms with a specific number of IEP'd students to help with curriculum and classroom management if necessary. They should circulate and help all students in the classroom with special attention to the IEP'd students without bringing special, undesirerable attention to targeted students. Is this done?? Not from what I've seen.

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[nowinvolved]

2) Tenure.....It sometimes protects the less than adequate teachers in our district, but IMHO it's a good thing.

Tenure doesn't apply to long term subs or non-cert. staff. Full time in building subs get something like 125.00 per day, daily subs get something like 85.00 a day. Shouldn't the budget reduction reflect the difference between the two, instead of a line item.

[freedomisntfree]

As one who has sat across the table from him and heard his repeated malicious lies, he has lost the right to spread his lies to more victims. Neither the employees or taxpayers should believe anything that Batiste (or Gaudin, Howard, Pattison, Morris or the board) tells you. He does not have the right to go around acting like he is a professional person that cares about his employees or is above the malicious actions of his staff or the board or board attorney.

"It is a heart-wrenching experience," Superintendent Donaldo Batiste said Monday. "We're looking at people in the face who are doing great jobs"

This is another falsehood uttered by an incredibly malicious person that wants you to believe that he cares, that this is a terrible experience for him and that his words actually mean something. They don't because he is a liar that has admitted he is a liar. Hear it for yourself by going to youtube and entering the following words into the search: batiste hawn waukegan
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