Pink Slips

Dear insansapinas

When you receive pink slips, that means good bye, job, hello unemployment.


In Rhode Island school, not one but all teachers received pink slips from the school board meaning at the end of the school year they have to go.

Randi Kaye
CNN
A school board in Rhode Island has voted to fire all teachers at a struggling high school, a dramatic and controversial plan aimed at shoring up education in a poverty-ridden school district.
On Tuesday night, the board approved the plan by Frances Gallo, superintendent at Central Falls School District, to discharge 88 teachers at Central Falls High School.
The firings come over the district's concern that teachers refused to spend more time with students to improve test scores.
But a teachers' union spokesman called the firings "drastic" and cited a 21 percent rise in reading scores and a 3 percent hike in math scores in two years.
The terminations will go into effect in the next school year at Central Falls, one of the lowest-performing schools in the state.

According to the news, the teachers were asked to spend just additional 25 minutes for tutoring students.


Fifty per cent of the students at that high school are failing from their classes. Reading scores are only slightly above 50 per cent and so are the math scores.  AND THIS IS HIGH SCHOOL, not elementary.


Kumustahin naman ang suweldo nila-- $ 72 to 78 thousand a year. Laban ka.


Naalala ko tuloy yong movie ni Morgan Freeman as principal ng isang school na mahina rin ang scores. Decision na isara na iyon kung hindi tataas ang score nila.Syempre maraming mga makabagbag damadaming drama ng mga students...kagaya ng mga nabubuntis, kagaya ng mga walang magulang na nag-aalaga sa mga bata at mga lulong sa droga. Karaniwan ang mga iskwelang ito ay pinapasukan ng mga Latino, itim at iba pang minority na ang English ay second language. Nandiyan din ang mga bullies at mga gangs.


Kaya marami sa mga kababayan natin ang nagpapaaral sa private school  kung meron din naman silang pambayad o kaya inaabangan nila ang enrollment sa mataas na rating na school. Syempre hirap ang tanggapan doon not unless mataas din ang grade ng bata.


Diyan natin minsan naappreciate ang mga teachers sa Pilipinas na underpaid na at overloaded ng units pa.  Hayaan mo nang magsasideline sila pagtitinda ng tocino, sausage o peanut butter. Siguro naman ang mga high school students sa atin nakakapagbasa na? Pwera rin siguro sa mga iskul bukol.


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