[blueerica]

Betty - I only had time for a quick skim of what you wrote...

I think it's important to register a complaint, since, if no one ever does than it's not on record. However, if you're one of the first to finally step forward, it's an awfully long road to having anything done about it. I see my aunt go through this all the time as a teacher, her horror stories of other teachers who simply aren't doing there job and there's little to nothing that will be done about it over tenure. And worse, it's situations like this that make teachers on the whole look bad. My aunt lost her tenure with Long Beach schools when she left to have my cousins, came back and was on the bottom rung. C'est la vie.

On the other hand, tenure is good, because it protects teachers (hopefully good ones) from being replaced left and right for reasons like lesser pay, yada yada... you get what I'm saying. While it protects the ones that are doing well, it also protects those that are pieces of crap.

Hopefully registering a complaint, or more, will at least put a ding into her.