We have been sent an insider's account on Sean Davenport. He is the supervising superintendent sent to oversee Forest Hills High School Principal Ben Sherman, who is having difficulty in running the school. 90% of the staff voted no confidence in Sherman. This is from one of our regular readers.
I worked for
Sean Davenport, the person tasked to supervise Ben Sherman. During
Davenport's final year as principal at Thurgood Marshall Academy last year, a
technology teacher left in October. The vacancy was not filled until
March. During this time, students were assigned to be in a science
laboratory classroom. Students reported that more often than not, the
school didn't bother getting a sub for the class. The door to the
classroom was left open in case the noise level required dean
intervention. You can imagine what unsupervised children will do with a
room full of beakers, triple balance beams, and microscopes left out in the
open. Furthermore, when it was time to give grades for these students, Davenport
passed all of the students since not having a teacher wasn't their fault.
The teacher that ultimately took over the vacancy in March was tasked to teach
computer programming to a class of 30 students with approximately 20 working
laptops.
At TMA,
student discipline was lax. Students could curse at teachers directly to
their face or they could be on their phones constantly with no
consequences. As long as students stayed inside the classroom and did not
cause a scene when the superintendent/higher ups came by, you were left
alone. There was a math teacher that was known by the administration to
be close to his students and gave everyone passing grades with little or no
academic proficiency necessary. The teacher was also known to be unusually
close to his female students. This teacher was ultimately removed from
the classroom last February for allegedly buying 7 pounds of a date rape
drug: https://nypost.com/2018/02/21/nyc-teacher-busted-with-7-pounds-of-date-rape-drug-cops/
One more reason to drop out to this stupid union.
ReplyDeleteJames - you must consider moderating comments so this idiot doesn't get to post his stupidity on every thing you publish.
ReplyDeleteHe degrades the quality of the work you do.
The most important part of this blog is the content and the comments are mostly meaningless rants.
Why that person is entitled to an opinion. Did it hurt your feelings? If you disagree debate it and put forward an opposing opinion and let the reader decide. You libs are for one thought only and if you disagree with that thought you must be stopped and censored. Sound familiar my self righteous friends. And you call the right nazis and fascists. Sorry James but like I’ve said before you should allow all comments and let the reader decide no censorship!
DeleteWhen I finished reading this post, I decided to jot down the corrupt and/or immoral things that go on regularly at my school. In a matter of 5 minutes, I had 18 items written. I could write so much more. These 18 items do not include the stupidity that goes on like useless PD. The stupidity would be another list.
ReplyDeleteMy principal does not hide the fact that he is looking to move up in the DOE administration ladder. He will probably do so in the next couple of years.
According the the NYC DOE website, the budget for the 2018 - 2019 school year is 32.3 billion. The NYC DOE is a very expensive joke.
The whole system is one big warehouse before social welfare, jail or death. Teachers aren’t expected to teach just babysit. Those that try are punished severely by the warehoused thugs, the overseerer admins and even by the other babysitters. Several articles in today’s Post directly related.
ReplyDelete10:46, I understand what you are saying. Here we go again.
ReplyDeleteOne of the reasons I suspended blogging was because I could not keep up with some of the more over the top comments and the attacks on me for not censoring them. One of the reasons I came back was because a very good friend said this was the best place where teachers could go to vent online about conditions in the schools.
I'm torn but if someone has a reaction to this or just about every post that the answer is to quit the union, I totally disagree but they are entitled to their opinion. If they want to blame the union for everything and think teachers would be better off alone with every teacher for themselves, that is their right and the best thing to do is to just say they are wrong and explain why.
Bravo James free speech is much more important than censorship. Allow the free flow of ideas even if it offends. That’s the true purpose of freedom of speech.
DeleteAgree...free speech rules. Even if I disagree with some of the simple,ignorance of some of the ahem "teachers?!".
ReplyDeleteFunny I say that to myself every time I have someone read me your posts.
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