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Within hours of the publication of the Teacher Data Reports (TDRs) last Friday, the UFT began to hear stories of teachers and their families being hounded by news reporters from the New York Post.
On Friday evening, New York Post reporters appeared at the door of the father of Pascale Mauclair, a sixth grade teacher at P.S. 11, the Kathryn Phelan School, which is located in the Woodside section of Queens. They told Mauclairs father that his daughter was one of the worst teachers in New York City, based solely on the TDR reports, and that they were looking to interview her. They then made their way to Mauclairs home, where she told them that she did not want to comment on the matter. The Post reporters rang Mauclairs bell and knocked on her window all Saturday morning. She finally called the police, who told the reporters that since they were inside her private housing development, they were on private property and had to leave. The reporters rang the bell again, leading to a second visit from the police and a final warning to leave. Later, Mauclairs neighbors told her that that the Post reporters had been asking them questions about her.
Other reporters were outside P.S. 11, closed for the mid-winter break, looking for parents of students to interview.
On Saturday, the New York Post published an article with the headline Theyre doing zero, zilch, zippo for students.[1] It singled out Mauclair by name, claiming that her TDR reports put her at the bottom of the heap of New York City public school teachers. The article revealed her annual salary and asserted that DOE brass were confident she was ranked where she was supposed to be, although no officials were quoted this was the Posts inference, and nothing more.
more . . . http://www.edwize.org/the-true-story-of-pascale-mauclair
Sancho
(9,070 posts)Why attack good teachers? It's nuts! If you are a parent or teacher or care about your schools - then let's put a stop to this nonsense.
YvonneCa
(10,117 posts)...bad policy (school closure, turnaround and charter creation a la NCLB).
A principal told me about that perception part in 2007...and I didn't know what he meant at the time. I do now...
proud2BlibKansan
(96,793 posts)Starry Messenger
(32,342 posts)I hope people read the whole article too. The way this "data" is being produced is like numerology. This teacher is excellent and is having her life invaded for pseudoscience in the service of privatization.
FBaggins
(26,774 posts)Even if we were to accept that standardized tests are an acceptable measure of teacher performance, this would still be an unacceptable intrusion.
If I receive an outstanding performance review and the lady one office over receives a poor one, neither of us has any business knowing about the other. It could poison our working relationship. Others in the department certainly have no right to know... and the public at large (along with our salary information)?
Unacceptable. I can't see how it isn't tortious.
YvonneCa
(10,117 posts)...using flawed data to imply that every teacher in a given school or district is 'ineffective' in order to justify closure or implement harsh turnaround actions. There are dedicated, GOOD TEACHERS in these schools, too.
Diane Ravitch stands up for them. A few others (like Matt Damon, for instance) have joined her. We need more people who know what is happening to do that.
Thanks, proud2BlibKansan, for posting this here where it can be read and understood. This teacher is not alone.
proud2BlibKansan
(96,793 posts)who camped out at Pascale's home all weekend.
YvonneCa
(10,117 posts)...reporters could end each story with 'Reported by___' and their ratings printed afterward. Or...for TV reporters...they could sign off verbally with name, rank and performance evaluation ratings.
Only fair...
Smarmie Doofus
(14,498 posts)I CANNOT fucking *believe* it.
proud2BlibKansan
(96,793 posts)why teachers are pissed off.
Blows my mind.
This woman - Pascale - has spent more than a dozen years buying her own classroom materials, watching her class size grow, watching and feeling teachers being disrespected more and more all the time. While still spending her own money to supply her classroom. And now she gets put at the bottom of an invalid and mathematically unreliable ranking. And reporters camp outside her house.
And who still wonders why teachers are angry . . . .