Read my letter that helps my teacher from getting fired?

bulletandpima
Tue, 18 Mar 2008 10:28:05 +0000

Many years ago, when I was in hs, we had the same situation. What we did was show up at the board meeting, even brought our parents, the meeting was to be at the board of ed, but b4 it even started that had to move it to a school because there were so many people. The meeting went on for hours because of everyone speaking. The board will take you more seriously in person and with your parents (remember your parents pay taxes, and in our city they vote the board members in)

In the end, they did lose their position because as stated before it is the job, not the teacher and seniority wins. This teacher was teaching a subject that they were cutting (humanities), thus he was the logical person to go. However, he got hired in another school district right away (next day) because our protest made the paper and another school district felt that if soo many people fought for him they wanted a teacher like that. He actually got pd more. The school might lose a great teacher, but it can still work out the best. To this day, 20 yrs later he is still in contact with the students that started the protest