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Teacher Protests

Bravo to the MPS teachers who demonstrated at all the schools today. Taymore should have been fired years ago instead of rehired and given a substantial raise. She is not respected by the educators she abuses on a daily basis. The budget has been mismanaged, children ignored and the staff on the front lines disrespected. Glad they are taking action. Hopefully, the SC members will act like grownups and fire Taymore, Adams and that Sp Ed Woman. It’s interesting that even some teachers at my children’s school have said they would vote against an Override for the schools because they don’t trust the Administrators or School Committee.

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Incompetent and Arrogant
Bravo to the MPS teachers who demonstrated at all the schools today. Taymore should have been fired years ago instead of rehired and given a substantial raise. She is not respected by the educators she abuses on a daily basis. The budget has been mismanaged, children ignored and the staff on the front lines disrespected. Glad they are taking action. Hopefully, the SC members will act like grownups and fire Taymore, Adams and that Sp Ed Woman. It’s interesting that even some teachers at my children’s school have said they would vote against an Override for the schools because they don’t trust the Administrators or School Committee.
There can’t be that many teachers that live in Melrose. If they don’t live here they can’t vote

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Oh please, this is ridiculous. What a bunch of whiners these protesters are. In the business world, nobody would ever protest for coworkers who did not receive favorable reviews. Get real, we should all be cheering that the under performing teachers are not going to be teaching our kids. What's so wrong with accountability? Do your job well and keep your job. Do your job sub par and don't keep your job. Unless somebody can provide concrete evidence that the review process is not being followed or performed fairly, this protesting should stop immediately.

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Can you Sue a School For hiring incompetent teacher's? If you have a teacher whom you deem keep a record there's a lot who are dragging the system down but you don't see many citations. Trust me, the 2 biggest gorillas in the room in Public Education are teachers union, and the clueless State Department of Education(Administration, staff, school boards teacher and students parents) sucks up to them.

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Teacher's contract should be noted that a committee to make a motion of no confidence for any teacher with tenure with many complaints.

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Seriously
Oh please, this is ridiculous. What a bunch of whiners these protesters are. In the business world, nobody would ever protest for coworkers who did not receive favorable reviews. Get real, we should all be cheering that the under performing teachers are not going to be teaching our kids. What's so wrong with accountability? Do your job well and keep your job. Do your job sub par and don't keep your job. Unless somebody can provide concrete evidence that the review process is not being followed or performed fairly, this protesting should stop immediately.
The teacher's union did not choose to hire from the bottom of the barrel rejects and rookies pile. That was the superintendent and her principal henchmen, admins whose own previous districts were only too eager to see them leave. Do you ever wonder why PW-L or Brent are still here? Every job they apply for turns them away for what should have been obvious in Melrose but still isn't too these young MEF parents. CT herself tried to advance in Malden and was denied, for strong cause based on her lousy performance, basic illiteracy, nasty disposition, and failure to advocate competently for the special needs children in her charge. But naturally here in Melrose, people like Driscoll and Deselm (can't even acknowledge The Convict with his brown-nosing nonsense) praise these abusive incompetents to the hilt. Do you ever wonder why a huge portion of Taymore's own hires ended up with "Needs Improvement" on their evaluations? The answer is not the incoherent gibberish CT put forward about her alleged "high standards" and her self-exalted methods of "helping" "her" staff, whom she trashes on their evals and then praises to the hilt when it suits her in public sessions. The answer is a combination of incompetent hiring, even more incompetent and mean-spirited evaluation processes, and then inordinate power bestowed by a school committee that continues to fail in its primary oversight obligations. Add to that a bunch of idiot parents who lap up every poorly uttered administrative response and statement, and you have a district that is totally dysfunctional. Good and great teachers are forced out while inadequate teachers who should never have been hired remain, many advancing to administrative ranks. Some of those denied tenure are simply being shuttled around as the political game the administration and school committee are playing in their posturing for an override. Also, Taymore knows she can hire another batch of lowest-rung cheaper teachers if she keeps churning the staff.

The union has nothing to feel proud of in this realm either, though the blue shirts are a nice touch and it's good to see the faintest inkling of actual appropriate conduct by the union as a whole. Remember this is the union that allowed "poptarts" Mateus (hundreds of thousands of wasted dollars in lawsuits around his own misconduct) and "go back to the plantation" Baline (remember OCR? how about all those MCAD suits, some still pending?) to "lead" its organization for many years. With a competent administration, a superintendent should actually send poor teachers packing, not try to rehab them on the backs of the students. Nope, not in Melrose. Those are the very ones who get tenure and are often promoted besides. Where else would a band director be allowed to call his own place of employment an s-hole and in front of the students, no less, not even getting to the many thousands of legal dollars he cost the district for abusive conduct towards female staff? Where else would a coach who can't utter a complete sentence without the f-bomb be allowed to "teach" the most vulnerable students, especially in view of many years of behaving abusively and as a commonplace bully? Melrose, of course. But you sure don't hear the Melrose union protesting any of that! Where else would teachers over 40 be routinely driven out, or worse, allow a principal who engaged in drinking parties with younger teachers in which the older teachers were viciously mocked? Melrose, of course. But the teacher's union is never anywhere to be found when a black student is brutalized by its own president (not just one incident either) and the district is found to be guilty of systemic racial hostility. The teacher's union here can't be bothered with any of the actual, deeper issues. It wants another bogus override solely dedicated towards pouring more money into the hands of failed and despicable administrators and school committee members, as if more money will solve any of the actual problems. It's all indicative of the purely superficial understanding and response these self-promoters are putting forward yet again, and Melrose sadly chooses to keep its collective head in the sand instead of responsibly demanding full accountability. Melrose teachers as a collective whole (what's left of any who were qualified, that is) have themselves to blame for allowing the rug to expand for all the filth to continuing accumulating underneath instead of holding itself accountable for its own failures before demanding the public to give them more money.

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We are voting “NO” on any Override for the schools, if it is rushed this year. The Override possibility should only happen in November 2019. At this time, a Mayoral election will take place as well as numerous races in the Wards and for School Committee. BOA members running for Mayor cannot run for their current seats. Some BOA people are not seeking re-election. Half of the BOA could turnover. SC people like DeSelm and The Felon will be seeking votes (NO !) Hopefully, dozens of new candidates will run for both elective bodies. All folks interested must SPELL OUT their POSITIONS on Override Questions including the schools. Public Safety Buildings must be part of an Override and the 1st priority. We will not support an Override in September 2018 or April 2019 for the MPS only. Political Leadership and Judgement is needed but we are not holding our breath.

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Political Judgement
We are voting “NO” on any Override for the schools, if it is rushed this year. The Override possibility should only happen in November 2019. At this time, a Mayoral election will take place as well as numerous races in the Wards and for School Committee. BOA members running for Mayor cannot run for their current seats. Some BOA people are not seeking re-election. Half of the BOA could turnover. SC people like DeSelm and The Felon will be seeking votes (NO !) Hopefully, dozens of new candidates will run for both elective bodies. All folks interested must SPELL OUT their POSITIONS on Override Questions including the schools. Public Safety Buildings must be part of an Override and the 1st priority. We will not support an Override in September 2018 or April 2019 for the MPS only. Political Leadership and Judgement is needed but we are not holding our breath.
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Seriously
Oh please, this is ridiculous. What a bunch of whiners these protesters are. In the business world, nobody would ever protest for coworkers who did not receive favorable reviews. Get real, we should all be cheering that the under performing teachers are not going to be teaching our kids. What\'s so wrong with accountability? Do your job well and keep your job. Do your job sub par and don\'t keep your job. Unless somebody can provide concrete evidence that the review process is not being followed or performed fairly, this protesting should stop immediately.
The teacher's union did not choose to hire from the bottom of the barrel rejects and rookies pile. That was the superintendent and her principal henchmen, admins whose own previous districts were only too eager to see them leave. Do you ever wonder why PW-L or Brent are still here? Every job they apply for turns them away for what should have been obvious in Melrose but still isn't too these young MEF parents. CT herself tried to advance in Malden and was denied, for strong cause based on her lousy performance, basic illiteracy, nasty disposition, and failure to advocate competently for the special needs children in her charge. But naturally here in Melrose, people like Driscoll and Deselm (can't even acknowledge The Convict with his brown-nosing nonsense) praise these abusive incompetents to the hilt. Do you ever wonder why a huge portion of Taymore's own hires ended up with "Needs Improvement" on their evaluations? The answer is not the incoherent gibberish CT put forward about her alleged "high standards" and her self-exalted methods of "helping" "her" staff, whom she trashes on their evals and then praises to the hilt when it suits her in public sessions. The answer is a combination of incompetent hiring, even more incompetent and mean-spirited evaluation processes, and then inordinate power bestowed by a school committee that continues to fail in its primary oversight obligations. Add to that a bunch of idiot parents who lap up every poorly uttered administrative response and statement, and you have a district that is totally dysfunctional. Good and great teachers are forced out while inadequate teachers who should never have been hired remain, many advancing to administrative ranks. Some of those denied tenure are simply being shuttled around as the political game the administration and school committee are playing in their posturing for an override. Also, Taymore knows she can hire another batch of lowest-rung cheaper teachers if she keeps churning the staff.

The union has nothing to feel proud of in this realm either, though the blue shirts are a nice touch and it's good to see the faintest inkling of actual appropriate conduct by the union as a whole. Remember this is the union that allowed "poptarts" Mateus (hundreds of thousands of wasted dollars in lawsuits around his own misconduct) and "go back to the plantation" Baline (remember OCR? how about all those MCAD suits, some still pending?) to "lead" its organization for many years. With a competent administration, a superintendent should actually send poor teachers packing, not try to rehab them on the backs of the students. Nope, not in Melrose. Those are the very ones who get tenure and are often promoted besides. Where else would a band director be allowed to call his own place of employment an s-hole and in front of the students, no less, not even getting to the many thousands of legal dollars he cost the district for abusive conduct towards female staff? Where else would a coach who can't utter a complete sentence without the f-bomb be allowed to "teach" the most vulnerable students, especially in view of many years of behaving abusively and as a commonplace bully? Melrose, of course. But you sure don't hear the Melrose union protesting any of that! Where else would teachers over 40 be routinely driven out, or worse, allow a principal who engaged in drinking parties with younger teachers in which the older teachers were viciously mocked? Melrose, of course. But the teacher's union is never anywhere to be found when a black student is brutalized by its own president (not just one incident either) and the district is found to be guilty of systemic racial hostility. The teacher's union here can't be bothered with any of the actual, deeper issues. It wants another bogus override solely dedicated towards pouring more money into the hands of failed and despicable administrators and school committee members, as if more money will solve any of the actual problems. It's all indicative of the purely superficial understanding and response these self-promoters are putting forward yet again, and Melrose sadly chooses to keep its collective head in the sand instead of responsibly demanding full accountability. Melrose teachers as a collective whole (what's left of any who were qualified, that is) have themselves to blame for allowing the rug to expand for all the filth to continuing accumulating underneath instead of holding itself accountable for its own failures before demanding the public to give them more money.
This is so perfectly accurate. Thanks for the summary.

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mom
Teacher\'s contract should be noted that a committee to make a motion of no confidence for any teacher with tenure with many complaints.
So true make it happen soon.

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The Division of Special Education and Student Services Provides technical expertise and leadership in the area of professional development, parental involvement, and the interpretation of federal and state. The office of Specialized Education Facilities under PWL has downright FAILED the Melrose schools.:-1: