Dear Editor,
I read with interest about the settlement of Ms. Kristen Porter
who was terminated on a temporary contract. I think she should have
been allowed additional money for emotional distress besides the
settlement.
Dear Editor,
I read with interest about the settlement of Ms. Kristen Porter who was terminated on a temporary contract. I think she should have been allowed additional money for emotional distress besides the settlement.
I taught in the Gilroy Unified School District last year and was treated horrifically through the evaluation process. The special education director simply called up my principal and told her that “I was not a match for the district.” She then contrived the evaluation process to make sure that I resigned before the deadlines. I was observed only twice, no administrators were in my classroom expect for two small observations, there were no parent complaints, and the students liked me. The special education director was cold.
I feel bad about what happened to Ms. Porter, but it lets me put it into perspective about what happened to myself. It is easy to see that the Gilroy School District administrators are unbalanced, paranoid, and power hungry. Any school district which allows the assistant superintendent of personnel to treat a teacher like they did Ms. Porter and uncounted others to remain in their positions needs to be out of their school board position.
The GUSD administrators are not nice people, they are not fair and equitable and most likely are power hungry. I think that the school board should evaluate the superintendent and his assistant and deduct the $17,000 awarded to Ms. Porter from their salaries.
Ted R. Carlson, Los Angeles
