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Tuesday, February 28, 2012

Honey Badger

The Honey Badger has been busy but I promise I am still here. Please get yourselves out to the protest tomorrow at 3:45 at the Georgia Music Hall of Fame. We need to show the administraion and the BOE that we are still here and GROWING. (Not unlike his expense account!) Bring your signs, tee shirts, protests, and best behavior. Lets be as peaceful, organized, and as non confrontational as the situation will allow. The Honey Badger is ready to strike again!!

15 comments:

  1. Are you aware of any system employees/teachers will be there?

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  2. Apparently this link was posted on Sunday's expenditure article comments. It is the INVESTIGATION REPORT on Dallemand's RESULTS while principal (p. 8) in February 2005 of Hartford Transitional Learning Academy: A School in Need of Transition. This is shocking and incriminatory.

    Http://hartfordinfo.org/issues/wsd/familiesandchildren/htla_invest_report.pdf

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  3. This is an excellent report. Thanks for posting the link, I hadn't seen it.

    Please try to read this - it's 16 pages long, but explains the problems in setting up and evaluating alternative schools for students with behavioral problems. Very well written.

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  4. I am a teacher at Porter Elementary School and we were told by Her Dollymond that Porter Elementary School will be closed. I'm actually glad he made this decision because I have been looking for a reason to apply for teaching positions in Houston County. I hear that the school system in Houston County is run extremely well with hardly any discipline problems - compared to Bibb County, Houston has hardly any! Thanks Her Dollymond for helping to make my decision clear - crystal clear on what I need to do and where I need to teach.

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    1. Well.......good luck with that one! Jobs in Houston County are few and far between. As a resident of Houston County, with one child in the school system........stay in Bibb County. We don't need an influx of teachers from a horrible school system trying to come down to Houston County and teach our kids!!!!! We are just fine. Leave us out of it!

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    2. We don't need teachers to give up hope!

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    3. Be glad you have BC teachers applying in Houston County. The qualified, intelligent ones will make a smart move and get out now. I'm not so sure the previous comment from a parent in HC mirrors the feelings of all down there. In fact, I know for certain that HC appreciates those with experience and strong teaching practices. Just saying...

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  5. The sad thing is -- this "plan" WILL pass -- unfortunately - Dr. D will hang around and cause more problems, chase more good people away and spend more money -- then he will leave Macon and leave all of us who really care about this city and its students to clean up his mess. I have devoted 30 years to this system - all of my children are successful products of this system --- it is so sad to see what is going on!!

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  6. Okay so check out Dallemand's new blog about the info that will be coming out (yeah right!). Of course it was posted today and still says absolutely nothing at all, especially nothing about discipline which is Student Safety, I guess he thinks we'll assume student affairs includes that, but if it does, that's news to me. I was very frustrated once again with the lack of participation, but at least we are trying to continue the fight.I find myself questioning whether or not as many people care as I think,hope,pray care! I know you do and with any hope they will address the discipline issue post haste. As a former Bibb teacher I can tell that traditionally the violence,disruption and chaos increases as we near spring break and summer. I am also disgusted by the fact that 2 of the parent "advocates" who are paid ALOT of MONEY, were in fact watching way far removed right outside the door during today's protest. So Batiste and Lockette just stand outside looking at concerned parents and never introduced themselves, never tried to hear the concerns and damn sure didn't ADVOCATE anything.....well maybe the $700.00 dinner they ate at the Hartford CT convention....vacations buy proponents I guess.

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    1. Were all of these new positions he filled (such as parent advocate) ever posted?? I don't remember seeing any of them on teachgeorgia.org. Isn't it legally required that jobs that are not internal be posted for a period of time?

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  7. How do you know what they are being paid? If they don't have degrees surely they are not paid like educated, certified teachers. I thought they were like para pros. How can we find out? If there are parent advocates present, why didn't they speak to the parents there to answer concerns.?
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  8. http://www.open.georgia.gov . That will give you info from 2011 but we are now in fiscal year 2012. The advocates HAD other titles then but on the ORA you can see their trip to ct and they are being paid better than some teachers, and no they did not EVEN try to reach out to the protesters

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  9. Dallemeand states in his blog, today, that he has not heard a single person speak out against his plan.

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    1. That goes right along with his fantasy-mentality... "The Emperor's New Clothes"

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