VIDEO: Utterback parents continue to cry out for help from TUSD
Here’s a simple example of how TUSD plays games, proclaiming progress while you do NOTHING.
Utterback parents standing up for their kids
Utterback was ordered by the federal court to fill all its teacher vacancies by November 1, 2015.
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One year later TUSD has failed to do so.
After the parents complained about this two weeks ago, TUSD simply made all of the subs “long-term substitute teachers” which immediately canceled all the vacancies.
But nothing changed. The teachers are still not certified and are having major issues controlling their classes. since Utterback is a magnet school, they should only be getting the best teachers, instead of the young first-year or substitute teachers they are using to solve their problems.
The teachers are still not certified and are having major issues controlling their classes. Since Utterback is a magnet school, they should only be getting the best teachers, instead of the young first-year or substitute teachers TUSD is sending them as HT Sanchez and his board majority continue to ignore Utterback’s problems.
Consider what happened when to University Medical Center (UMC) when they bought Kino hospital, which just so happens to be down the street from Utterback. The reputation of this southside hospital was negative, considered as a place where only homeless and poor people should go to get help. In order to get their best doctors to go from UMC to Kino, the owners simply paid doctors more to go to Kino.
This is something similar to what I mentioned in the video above at the last board meeting. Imagine if TUSD took their $63 million and obeyed the desegregation order by offering teachers 50, 60, or even 70 thousand dollars to teach in the southside. This would solve the problem by attracting the best teachers to the place that needs the most help, and it is certainly a better use of Desegregation funds on actual magnet schools and teachers than paying a Phoenix law firm $1 million per year to fight their desegregation orders.
Alas, TUSD just changed the classification of the same substitute teachers in the classroom, improving nothing, but once again improved the numbers magically and then proclaimed Mission Accomplished.
Originally published at TSON News.
