Is Charleston County School District's Sanders-Clyde Elementary unable to fill its vacancies with graduates having teaching credentials? If so, filling vacancies with Teach-for-America (TFA) graduates is appropriate. If not, their two-year employment at Sanders-Clyde and other "failing" CCSD schools raises troubling questions.
Why not fill vacancies with graduates of colleges and universities who do have teaching credentials? Given the economic climate and constraints on hiring new teachers, many new teaching graduates must be scrambling for any other kind of job they can get. On the other hand, TFA graduates presumably either do not intend to remain in the teaching profession or did not plan ahead.
Today's P&C highlighted the enthusiasm of a recent Charleston Southern University student who will work for TFA. CCSD will pay her salary and benefits and another $4000 per year to Teach for America. Why wouldn't CCSD simply hire a Charleston Southern graduate who has a teaching credential instead?
Makes no sense to me.
Monday, July 23, 2012
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Is it true that CCSMS lost another Principal today? Hmmmmm...
If the CCSMS rumor is true, that would be four principals (including an interim) in four years? In corporate America, four CEO's in four years would warrant a look at the corporation, not the CEO's. In sports, four different head coaches (of the same team) in four years would invite one to question the team's organization, not its coaches. It is time some of those CCSMS folks took a good look...in the mirror...and at the people at that school who still remain in positions of authority.
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