Last month I wrote about Lynden Dorval, a teacher suspended after 35 years of service for daring to challenge a moronic rule that says you can’t give a zero grade. This includes situations where the students fail to complete or even give in their assignments.
Today I read that the suspension may well turn into a sacking. It seems that principal Ron Bradley isn’t thrilled that Dorval didn’t leave any lesson plans for the substitute teacher. Who in their right mind would expect a suspended teacher to provide the school with lesson plans?
Tell me Mr. Bradley doesn’t sound like an infant fighting over a crayon in this exchange:
Lynden Dorval was told in a letter he received last week from Ron Bradley, principal of Ross Sheppard High School, that he is facing termination.
After criticizing Dorval for not returning unmarked exams, assignments and lab reports after he was suspended — and not leaving lesson plans for his replacement — Bradley informs the physics and science teacher that his job is on the line.
“I find it utterly reprehensible that you would sit on these exams and assignments for weeks without alerting the school,” Bradley wrote in the letter, which is dated June 18th.
“Your behavior is unbefitting a professional. It is also ironic in light of your very public pronouncements about your concern for the welfare of your students.
“Your habitual refusal to obey lawful orders, your repeated insubordination, and your obvious neglect of duty force me to consider recommending termination of your teaching contract with Edmonton Public Schools.”
Out of ten, I give Bradley’s handling of this situation a …. zero!
Click here to read my earlier post on this story.
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June 26, 2012 at 10:59 pm |
Have I got this right? The principal suspends a teacher for awarding precisely the grade that a student earned. He suspends the teacher, following which he now expects the teacher to continue to do his duties. After he has been suspended….!? Unbelievable!
It seems to me that the principal gets off on power and has lost the plot.
June 26, 2012 at 11:11 pm |
I’m glad I’m not alone on this one. Suspended and expected to plan lessons – absolutely crazy!