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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]We had a new teacher when DD was in 6th. But he mostly taught 7th. Apparently he was kinda crazy and even threw pencils at the kids. My DD did not like him but never gave me an example that I thought was incompetent. But the 7th grade parents banded together and he was fired by the end of the year. Our principal seems to be pretty responsive. Maybe this was just a unique situation because he was new?[/quote]
I've know colleagues to throw hardback BOOKS at kids and not get fired so I'm shocked he was fired for throwing pencils. [/quote]

There's a process.  If the teacher left at the end of the year, there are a few possibilities: he moved to another school; he was actually a long-term sub for the entire year (sometimes happens with unfilled positions) and could have actually been "fired"; he was notified that due to poor performance, he would be put on PAR for the next year and he decided to resign; if he was a first-year MCPS teacher, he would already be on PAR, and was notified (through out the year) that he wasn't meeting standards, and his contract was not renewed.  If it's teh last one, the guy was either REALLY incompetent and ignored the support of his consulting teacher, or had an incompetent consulting teacher who didn't guide him when he made mistakes.

When I was in 9th grade math class, my friend sitting next to me dropped his pencil and I picked it up and gave it back to him.  He didn't realize he had dropped it and asked why I was giving it to him. We had a 10-second back-and-forth whisper about it.  The teacher came over, picked up my friend's binder, and hurled it across the room against the wall, then yelled at us to stop talking.  My friend's binder was broken and his papers were all over the classroom.  After class ended, he had to scramble to collect all of his stuff while the teacher barked that he wouldn't be writing him a note if he was late for his next class (I stayed for a minute to help him).  It didn't matter because my friend went straight to the office, and the assistant principal eventually called me and a few other classmates in one at a time to ask about what happened.  The teacher ended up calling my friend at home and giving a very strange apology, but he went "on leave" the next week and never returned to that school.  He had always been somewhat hot-headed, so I always wondered if there had been other incidents that we never heard about.

In any case, this was almost 20 years ago, but I still remember it vividly, and the teacher is actually still teaching in MCPS.[/quote]

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