JeffCo school board decision draws questions re:transparency

RenegadeCJ wrote:
Regarding transparency. Fully support all meetings being open to the public. I also would support putting a camera in every classroom so that parents could log in and see exactly what the teachers are teaching, AND students who are sick could catch some of the work.

Would that type of transparency be ok with the teachers? Or only transparency when it doesn't hold them to account.

Well said. As a parent of three, I would love to see what goes on in these classrooms on a daily basis... and since I pay for it, I think I deserve to see what I'm getting for my tax dollars. I also really like your point that a sick kid could watch their classes from home and not be so stressed out trying to catch up. What's the downside other than some teachers not wanting to be evaluated by parents? It would also discourage teachers from indoctrinating their students with their own political ideology that shouldn't be in the classroom anyway. The same people who want cops to be camera'd up probably think this is a bad idea.

Yikes. All the way from Chicago, my sister has sent me this New Yorker piece, "Colorado school board votes to ban students." Now she wants to know wtf and what am I supposed to tell her? That the student-free zones are not based on the school board's vote?

www.newyorker.com/humor/borowitz-report/...d-votes-ban-students

Until the specific reason/reasons for the sick outs and protests come out, it just appears to be "if we don't get it our way, we won't do it."
Getting kids to not go to class and protest is no significant achievement either, since many are always looking for a way not to go to class.

The student protests wouldn't even be happening if the weather was bad.

They have finally released a concise statement that I can back.

Classes canceled at 2 JeffCo high schools - www.9news.com/story/news/education/2014/...igh-school/16415035/

Is it just me, or is anyone else tired of the teachers continuing this sick-out crap? They have gotten attention, now it is past time for them to go back to doing the job we are paying them to do. Whatever sympathy I may have had for their cause in the beginning is now completely gone.

But it's all about the kids! Think of the children!

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The limited support I had for them on the reasoning for the protest is now gone. Get back to work and stop teaching "if we don't get our way, we won't play."

The Superintendent issued a statement that he might dock the teachers a day's pay for misusing their alloted leave time in this manner. Personally I think a month's suspension without pay, given their actions are both in violation of the collective bargaining agreement they accepted and Colorado Law, is in order should this nonsense continue.