Re: Plans of Assistance

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I don't know what other "evidence" lurks in the private files of your
principal (and those can come back to haunt you), but if the POA you posted
is the whole POA you recieved, you do stand a fair chance in any legal
battles. However, do you really wish to fight these battles? Is the job
that good that you need the headaches and heartaches that go along with
keeping it?

As a tenured teacher, you may outlast your principal. However, you will
still have "history" in the district and you will most likely be labeled
as "trouble." This title will stay with you as principals change and others
in the administrative circle wag their tongues of your history and pass your
history to others. You also run the risk of some other administrator
placing you on their hit list. You further run the risk of one of these
administrators knowing how to get rid of you. As my father (a former
administrator-type with the Feds) used to say, "With six months of paperwork
and one good lie, I can get rid of anybody."

Even winning can take its toll on you. I went through a legal battle with a
district back when I was a teacher. The dumbass superintendent in that
district thought she could ruin me with one month of paperwork and 16 good
lies. To make a long story short, 15 months and two settlements later, I
won (a damn good retirement nest egg) however, not a day goes by that I
don't feel bitterness about it...and it's been 6 years since the final
settlement!

Only you can decide what is best for your overall well-being. But do
consider the whole war and not just the present battle.

On 3/31/12, thanks MQ wrote:
> I do have a very good attorney. He will work with me to help monitor
> through this Plan of Assistance.
> I am just going to have to be positive through this and jump through the
> hoops.
> I don't think I could find another job if I lost this.
> I'm just going to make it impossible for him to fail me on it by putting
> my all into the plan of assistance. I want to keep this job and am
> determined to do so, even if that means filing an appeal again should he
> attempt to not pass me on the plan.
>
>
>
> On 3/28/12, MacQ wrote:
>> It would have helped to have known that you had a "history" with this
>> principal. I now see things in a different light. This guy is
>> gunning for you and is going to let you dig your own grave.
>>
>> This plan is a POS and allows for a lot of wiggle room and
>> interpretation and that can work to the favor of both parties, with
>> the one having the best attorney winning.
>>
>> If I were in your position, I'd cut my losses and start looking for
>> employment elsewhere.
>>
>>
>> On 3/28/12, Other Options wrote:
>>>
>>> OP,
>>>
>>> Why did you not note in your first post that you has previously
>>> appealed a Plan of Assistance and won your job back as that would
>>> have been a lot more productive in anyone giving you feedback??
>>>
>>> 1- It is obvious that the principal made your job untenable by
>>> putting a very weak IA into your classroom.
>>>
>>> - Why did you not go to your rep or HR when the IA was going to be
>>> placed on a Plan of Assistance and your involvement was not sought?
>>>
>>> - Why when you obviously had documentation from classroom
>>> observations, parent requests etc. did you not go to your union rep.
>>> to see the appropriate channel to state your case that the IA was
>>> impeding the instructional climate in your classroom?
>>>
>>> 2- It does sound like a retaliatory action was taken right from the
>>> beginning by this principal, but knowing this was probably so, why
>>> spend so much time on just trying to keep a job in the same building?
>>>
>>> - It is obvious that he is going to keep supporting this IA to the
>>> end if it a way to help him get documentation to move you out.
>>>
>>> - His other approach also seems to be very vague in setting goals to
>>> make it easy for him to make claims and hard for you to document.
>>>
>>> 3- If you really feel it is worthwhile to try and keep your job,
>>> then why pussy foot around with some vague POA which will be easy
>>> for him to make negative comments about and you much harder to
>>> defend. I would go to the core and put in a claim for harrassment
>>> on the job by the administrator in not dealing with the IA's
>>> behavior in your classroom in numerous ways.
>>>
>>> 4- Actually, I would have gone along this year and been looking for
>>> another job as much as possible because this principal is out to
>>> screw you one way or another.
>>>

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