Parent Center Smack Down.mov

Ms. Yolie Flores speaking to students who had gathered in the parent center of Huntington Park High School on Monday December 13, 2010. She was expecting to speak with parents, but instead, she received a less than affectionate response from students who know that she is a strong advocate of small schools and is responsible for placing the school under the "Public School Choice" mandate. They don't want to see their school broken up into small schools with fewer electives and fewer resources. Ms. Flores believes that any information which doesn't fit her view of things is "misinformation."

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Education

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• Yolie Flores
• Huntington Park High School
• Public School Choice
• LA Unified

[skwash4]

NO, Blaine you're wrong on many counts - the stull process is a process of evaluation that teachers who are fully tenured undergo every two years. Two unsatisfactory stull evaluations can put a teacher's job in jeopardy despite tenure. How would you propose that teachers should be "filtered" and the "bad ones" are found and fired? Is it how well they kiss up to administration? How popular they are with students who don't want to do anything in class, but want the credit anyway?

[skwash4]

Not only that, but where are you going to get the replacements? Do you really think they're lining up outside of Beaudry to come and teach at HP with budget cuts and all the behavior problems that occur in "regular" classes?

[skwash4]

Blaine - Yes, a teacher CAN and does get removed even though he or she is tenured. I've seen it happen. Teaching is not like assembly line work. It involves getting people upset who have no right to be upset - bad grades that are earned - complaining about administration. Tenure has been acknowledged as a necessity for decades. It is intended to save teachers from pettiness and capriciousness. Without it, you don't have education. You have popularity measures.

[MrAngelpa]

the only thing yall don't want is to leave and get separated from your friends period...



[Buenanueva1]

@Blaine003 it happens in LAUSD as well; they get placed in so called "rubber rooms"

[boston312]

Bingo @ 7:35. Yolie gets put in her place. Im sick of these politicians always bringing up ethical and moral issues with the public when it is they who are corrupted and bought off by the multi million capitalists. Hats off to the lady who mentioned the financial side handouts Yolie is taking from special interests (Eli Braud) and her nice little job awaiting her after retirement. Too bad more people cant expose these politicians

[Blaine003]

And is that "retraining" center considered being in jeopardy? Because that looks like a paid vacation.

[Blaine003]

@skwash4 What does "jeopardy" mean? I would love to know and I dont mean to sound arrogant. Now I have a pressing question.. In "Waiting for Superman" which Im sure you've seen, teachers that run into trouble are sent to this "retraining" center where they do nothing. They sit around reading, sleep, and get paid. Is that a universal process or exclusive to the NY school board.

[Blaine003]

@skwash4 @skwash4 The fact is that tenure protects bad teachers. Firing a tenured teacher is expensive + long, so it makes the process nearly impossible. There are more lawyers+doctors losing their credentials in the US for underperformance than there are bad teachers - that is the real problem. If there is no efficient way to filter and remove the bad, then all you have is a polluted roster of instructors. Having apathetic teachers doens't help either.