It has to be the book (1+ / 0-)
It is not the board. It is the two top administrators in the district and it appears to all be about the book No Child Left Alive. The book is a satire about a year in a dysfunctional high school in a dysfunctional school district where education and discipline have been sacrificed as ambitious administrators push their own agendas. I have been told that the satire hit too close to home. There are a few people, including one of the reporters who covered the case, who think that my problems can be traced back to my personal blog While I never wrote about the school district on the blog, except in positive ways, I was warned about writing about politicians and other friends of the administrators. There are also a few people who believe administration was sending a message that if you step out of line, you are going to be crushed. I can't be for sure if it is one of those things or something else that I haven't even thought about. In my 22 years as a newspaper reporter, I covered stories involving corrupt cops and politicians, child murderers, and absolute lunatics, but I never ran into anything like this. Any teacher, even one who had tenure as I had, can be removed, simply for violating school policies. There was no need for them to create something like that to get rid of me so you are right, something is missing here.
by rturner229 on Tue Jun 18, 2013 at 10:08:11 PM PDT
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