Fired TPS teacher now works at Penta - With the strong public school teachers union, I wondered how it was a possible for a teacher to get axed. It seems making the students study could get you fired. "Shehrever Masters was once a lightning rod in the rolling thunderstorm of debate over teaching standards and why American students lag behind other countries in subjects such as science. Simply put, maybe American teachers aren’t demanding enough."
"The former Bowsher High School science teacher was described as too demanding by some of his freshman students in 1996. Nightly assignments required them to read their textbook. Daily quizzes tested what they’d learned the night before."
"Students dropped the class and failed it in droves."
Oh the humanity. Can't have students failing, because they aren't doing the work. That would lower TPS's numbers.
"Many of [the students] complained to their parents, some of whom, in turn, complained privately and later publicly to Toledo Public Schools administrators."
Sounds like a familiar tune. Discipline, studying, no difference. "The teachers are afraid of principals, the principals are afraid of the superintendent, the superintendent is afraid of the board of education, the board of education is afraid of the parents, and the parents are afraid of the kids."
Back to the main story...
"When Mr. Masters refused a request by the district to change his teaching style in order to reach more students, he was eventually fired for being an "ineffective" teacher."
TPS needs more "ineffective" teachers like this.
"Many students who supported him at the time speak even more strongly in favor of him now that they have experienced college and, in some cases, graduate school."
No surprise there. You can't go crying to Mommy when the college profs make you work.
I saw a great quote over the weekend:
"Football may be the best taught subject in American high schools, because it may be the only subject we haven't tried to make easy."
- Dorothy Farnan, English Department Chairman, Erasmus Hall High School, Brooklyn
"Farnan, a strict teacher who required even remedial-reading students to study Shakespeare, taught in New York City's Erasmus Hall High School in Brooklyn and in 1986 became the first woman to head the school's English department."
posted by jr to education at 11:21 A.M. EST
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toledo public schools suck ass we need more teachers like him
posted by Guest at 09:11 P.M. EST on Thu Jan 01, 2004 #
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