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    Been There
    By L

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    As a beginning teacher (over a decade ago), I had to turn in weekly lesson plans (all beginning teachers still have to.) We're required to have sub plans ready in our desks. We call these "Emergency Lesson Plans." It sounds like your principal is asking for lesson plans WITHOUT asking for lesson plans. In other words, she's asking for sub plans each week - as if teachers are going to be absent on a weekly basis.

    It sounds like she's a micro-manager and probably paranoid about what everyone is teaching. Administrators are so insecure these days because the the standardized test scores and how they reflect on administrators. Our administrator actually pulls teachers out of their CORE subject area the next year if their scores are low the previous year (ex: a Language Arts teacher with low scores will be assigned to teach a 5/5 schedule of the "non-important because it's not tested" Social Studies or P.E.
    Then again, our administrators are two jerks who let one obnoxious Language Arts teacher and two school monitors run the school. They even had the NERVE to solicit and send e-mails around asking (rather - DEMANDING) all teachers DONATE money for Christmas gifts to: two janitors, two useless monitors, the computer teacher, etc.



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