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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Sounds like the P and AP are on 2 different planets.  Not good.  In my district, in order for you to lose your license, you are put on a PIP (Performance Improvement Plan) and [b]the P has to do A LOT of legwork to get rid of you.[/b]  It happens occasionally but it means you are observed a lot and are assigned an instructional coach, etc.  Did any of this happen?  If not, is there a union you belong to?  [/quote]

This is what is wrong with teaching, and why bad teachers get to teach our kids.  Why should the principal have to do "A LOT" of leg work to get rid of ineffective teachers?  Also, if the principal is unhappy enough to recommend terminating her license in the district, why is she still in the classroom?  Basically, the principal is saying she is ineffective enough for him/her to say don't allow this teacher to teach in this district anymore, but let her current students be subjected to sub-par teaching for the rest of the year.  I'm sure OP is a nice person who is going through a difficult time, but there is a whole classroom of kids being subjected to her professional and personal struggles.  How is that fair to those kids?  I understand that the principal doesn't want to terminate OP mid-year, so why not keep her on in a capacity outside the classroom, which would be best for the kids and likely also for OP.  [/quote]

It should take a lot of work to terminate a person's ability to support themselves and their family.  If you aren't in education, you don't understand that if you do something (whether you mean to or not) to piss off an admin, they have the ability to end your teaching career.  ONE person has the ability to do this.  It sounds very fishy in the OP's case that she had good evaluations in her previous school and all of a sudden she has become ineffective.  Doubtful.  Sounds like her admin has it in for her.  If she teaches in a city school in an East Coast school, it is doubtful there is someone other than a substitute waiting to take over her class.[/quote]

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