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Message: [QUOTE="SCNCHuskie, post: 4415191, member: 11200"] I quit my last school because of lesson plans. Ordinarily, I do whatever is asked of me, but in this case I refused because I have a rule against doing stupid crap. The school instituted a new math program which we were required to teach with fdelity, no improvising, no skipping topics, and no supplementing. The lessons came with pre-done lesson plans. During a meeting a new assistant principal told the math teachers we had to write special lesson plans in a format that she wanted. Her rationale was that even though we were provided with lesson plans that matched our content and curriculum, she did not want the other teachers to be upset that we did not have to use her format as they did. I refused and it became an issue. Another math teacher offered to write them for me if I agreed to stay. She stated that the first one she wrote took three hours, but she was able to get it down to an hour once she got the hang of it. During our first meeting the administrator condescendingly remarked about how I had succumbed to her wishes even after my original complaint, basically suggesting that I was all talk. I explained I absolutely did not, and that the other teacher wrote my lesson plans for me because she really wanted me to stay. Within a week I left the school, and they were never able to find a certified math teacher to fill my position. In that case I wouldn’t question who won, but I surely know who lost. I worked at a school in an urban center in North Carolina. We averaged 36 major referrals per day, I know the number because I was on the committee that handled discipline and my role was to keep track of infractions. That is an average of 36 major referrals, per day, for the year. To put that in perspective, my last school did not have 36 major referrals in the two years I was there. The funny thing is I had one office referral in two years. The procedure was that if you were having a classroom disruption you buzz the office and an administrator would come. The eighth grade principal stated, “The day that you buzz the office, we are sending in a SWAT team. “At a previous school I had a 12 year stretch without missing a school day or writing up a student. However, I personally was in trouble almost daily doing things that if I posted on here, most other teachers wouldn’t believe to be true. For those writing about cell phones, the one write up I had at the urban school was for a student who would not put away a cell phone and it became an issue. Other than that, I never once had a cell phone issue in all my years of teaching. I did not care what the school rule was, I did not care about anything other than I was not going to let phones disrupt my class. No warnings. No leniency. If I saw a phone, I took the phone. Students knew I was serious. Hence, never had a phone issue. Plus, we did math bell to bell, and sometimes after the bell. [/QUOTE]

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