Posted on April 3 at 10:09 a.m.

umleed,

When a lot of teachers HAVE been present throughout the entire process, you chose to call it whining. Teachers have been told NOT to send their students out of the classroom when they show up unprepared. Teachers, in general, are NOT against evaluation based on their merits, just the inferior manner CCPS chooses to do so. The CTAS process as it stands is not an incentive process to perform well and improve, as the legislature intends, but a punitive process for not doing what we're told. Instead of raises based on good performance, we face losing a step for poor performance.
BTW, I'm not in the onion, but I'll be glad to stop by your house and "talk."

On Collier school district agrees to change date of salary hearing so teachers can attend

Posted on April 3 at 5:17 a.m.

I don't care HOW they do it up north!
Oh, wait. Up north, teacher salaries are significantly higher than they are here. Benefits are better too. Retirement is about double what it is here. You don't have to go very far, either. Even in Georgia, salaries are about 25% higher.
Don't tell, "If you don't like it, move!" either. I grew up in Florida. I'm not going to abandon my home, my aging parents, my siblings because you've retired and are too cheap to pay for schools down here.
Either you pony up or YOU move.

On Collier school district agrees to change date of salary hearing so teachers can attend