Story:

We have one male full time teacher at our school. He doesn't attend our school wide community meetings, although all teachers are told to do so. He doesn't have to do bulletin board duty,which he was assigned to do, leaves school 20 min before the school day is over, every day. Upon bringing this up to the attention to the principal her response was, "Well he's a man." This she has stated to numerous people who have complained about the teacher not pulling his weight. One teacher told her that she was being sexist and not treating her staff equitably. Consequently This teacher was called to the office and in the presence of a central office representative reprimanded on numerous, bogus concerns one being the male teacher in question told her this teacher had been rude to him. This action resulted in a second evaluation of the teacher by the principal and a letter in the complaining teachers personnel file. The first evaluation completed a few weeks earlier was a glowing report by the principal of the teacher.

Story:

A principal decided within the first week of school to transfer a special education student, who is a sweet quiet boy, from a self contained regular classroom to a mixed 3/4 classroom. The same day this student went to his new classroom to discover his desk had been placed outside the room in the hallway and the room was devoid of students. He showed up at my doorway crying, he didn't know where he belonged. Consoling him I took him to his new classroom, which he told me about, the teacher was at this point in the room. She lets us know that he actually had been placed in his last year's second grade classroom. Fortunately this teacher expressed how disappointed she was he was no longer in her room, to please come to visit whenever he wanted. His "this year's/last year's teacher" greeted him with open arms and was glad to have her old friend back to help teach the new students how to be grown up. Both of these teachers were notified just moments prior to the change. His parents were never told; me, his special education teacher was never told. Not until I called and told his parents what happened did they call to check out the story with the principal. The following year, this year, he is in the 5th grade having never attended the 4th grade. This is one of many stories about this principal,