Friday, March 03, 2006
Evaluations
EVALUATIONS
I was evaluated over a 35 year teaching career by a series of droll, unimaginative , boring ass administrators who were dim witted bureaucrats and not capable of keeping up with me.
Once during a Middle States Accreditation Evaluation –break out the Windex- I was doing something silly with the map of Europe and came to Czechoslovakia and said, ”I used to be engaged to a girl from Czechoslovakia but it didn’t work out because my parents wouldn’t accept checks.
AND if that was bad enough I was quickly engaged to another girl with a wooden leg but my parent made me break it off.”
Later this guy wrote in an evaluation that humor was permissible in a lesson however I should make sure that it was appropriate to the audience. I told this guy straight up, ”Homey G. You couldn’t hang with me in a million years. I’m the one out here working for a living not you.”
Another time I came around the corner to my classroom about two minutes late drinking a cup of coffee, a sure symbol of conduct unbecoming a professional. A colleague pointed to my room and said, ”drive-by” a term I coined to indicate an unannounced observation. It was even worse because the Orca Administrator hated my guys every since I was emcee at a variety show where she performed some act in a rubber rain coat making the coat itself sound like rain.
I walked onto the stage took a long pause and said, The Opera’s not over until…..Now everyone got the joke that to Coach Dick Motta of the Washington Bullets because otherwise nobody knows shit about opera I can tell you that.
So I step into French class and set my coffee on a girl’s desk and say. ”Just watch this!” I walk into my room and say “sorry I’m late I got a leg cramp coming up the stairs but when you “knead helping hands” you can never find them. “
The kids are all sitting up front all 12 of them non academic fat file folder academically disabled crew. One of them is a 6’8” dyslexic who sells drugs and owns a sports car.
Great glad to see your all so eager, ”I said. “Who know what the phrase, ”walking around the elephant in the middle of the room means?” Sitting out in my classroom was a 325 pound over officious evaluation with a giant attitude problem.
“We don’t care,” said big Dwayne. We want to finish the movie and don’t start with “what movie or say something about a notebook you know we ain’t got. Why’s that woman gotta be here trying to ruin the best class we got?”
At that point a little white preppy girl carrying a cup of coffee walks into the back of the room, ”Fredman how long am I supposed to watch this?”
“Needless to say my evaluation was “unsatisfactory” which is incredible in that business where some exemplary teachers can’t even speak in complete sentences.
I was given an “improvement plan” which I refused to acknowledge or sign claiming “personal personality conflict and attack” because I learned from my crazy students. When the going gets tense just gets crazy because crazy trumps all other behaviors.
That’s it I’m out.
Chief Crazy FReddogg
I was evaluated over a 35 year teaching career by a series of droll, unimaginative , boring ass administrators who were dim witted bureaucrats and not capable of keeping up with me.
Once during a Middle States Accreditation Evaluation –break out the Windex- I was doing something silly with the map of Europe and came to Czechoslovakia and said, ”I used to be engaged to a girl from Czechoslovakia but it didn’t work out because my parents wouldn’t accept checks.
AND if that was bad enough I was quickly engaged to another girl with a wooden leg but my parent made me break it off.”
Later this guy wrote in an evaluation that humor was permissible in a lesson however I should make sure that it was appropriate to the audience. I told this guy straight up, ”Homey G. You couldn’t hang with me in a million years. I’m the one out here working for a living not you.”
Another time I came around the corner to my classroom about two minutes late drinking a cup of coffee, a sure symbol of conduct unbecoming a professional. A colleague pointed to my room and said, ”drive-by” a term I coined to indicate an unannounced observation. It was even worse because the Orca Administrator hated my guys every since I was emcee at a variety show where she performed some act in a rubber rain coat making the coat itself sound like rain.
I walked onto the stage took a long pause and said, The Opera’s not over until…..Now everyone got the joke that to Coach Dick Motta of the Washington Bullets because otherwise nobody knows shit about opera I can tell you that.
So I step into French class and set my coffee on a girl’s desk and say. ”Just watch this!” I walk into my room and say “sorry I’m late I got a leg cramp coming up the stairs but when you “knead helping hands” you can never find them. “
The kids are all sitting up front all 12 of them non academic fat file folder academically disabled crew. One of them is a 6’8” dyslexic who sells drugs and owns a sports car.
Great glad to see your all so eager, ”I said. “Who know what the phrase, ”walking around the elephant in the middle of the room means?” Sitting out in my classroom was a 325 pound over officious evaluation with a giant attitude problem.
“We don’t care,” said big Dwayne. We want to finish the movie and don’t start with “what movie or say something about a notebook you know we ain’t got. Why’s that woman gotta be here trying to ruin the best class we got?”
At that point a little white preppy girl carrying a cup of coffee walks into the back of the room, ”Fredman how long am I supposed to watch this?”
“Needless to say my evaluation was “unsatisfactory” which is incredible in that business where some exemplary teachers can’t even speak in complete sentences.
I was given an “improvement plan” which I refused to acknowledge or sign claiming “personal personality conflict and attack” because I learned from my crazy students. When the going gets tense just gets crazy because crazy trumps all other behaviors.
That’s it I’m out.
Chief Crazy FReddogg
