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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Is that the one who complained about being asked not to staple papers during a meeting?[/quote]

It is (or should be) reasonable for leaders to ask staff members not to staple or multi-task during meetings. Obviously, such correction should be administered fairly and equally without singling out one teacher but not saying anything to others who are multitasking. My guess is that she was already extra sensitive to anything coming from administration after seeing her materials and belongings in dumpsters in the rain last summer.[/quote]
Why were her things out in dumpsters?  The only reason I can think of is that the classroom was supposed to be cleaned out and she didn’t, so the school had to do it for her.[/quote]

Their things were boxed up and labeled—they were moving classrooms.[/quote]
Don’t let the facts get in the way of these racists eager to discredit a black teacher calling out overt discrimination and racism in APS.[b] They didn’t like it when the minority students spoke up at Yorktown, either. Remember how NVD cut them off in mid-sentence at the hearing? [/b]

APS needs a complete overhaul.[/quote]

The facts are that all speakers get the same amount of allotted time, then they are cut off. Nobody gets extra time, and it bears no relevance to whether the SB or the SB chair believes them or finds their statements moving and/or true.

I think most of us believe the kids to be reporting their actual feelings and perceptions. I know that I did/do.

However, I don’t automatically believe that this particular circumstance happened exactly as the teacher reported. Not a member of that school community and don’t know any of the people involved or the background of what happened or whether it’s a reasonable assumption. My personal biased belief, as an outsider, is that I am having trouble believing that the white principal would do such intentional and blatant and egregious things to a teacher of any race, simply because it would be so easy to get caught and so stupid to risk a career over doing something like that to anyone. She might be a racist, I don’t know. But she probably wouldn’t be so obvious if that were the motivation. I don’t want to believe that any principal would act like that toward staff. If there are pictures of her caught in the act of deliberately destroying the teachers’ property last summer, then that principal needs to go, regardless of her motivation behind doing that. [/quote]

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