I spent a number of years as an education consultant - working with school
districts throughout the country.
 
An independent school district means that the small town has its own school
system, independent of the county. For instance, in Maryland there are only
county school systems and of course the large Baltimore City system. Each of
these school districts has way over 50K kids. In many other areas there are
tiny "independent" school districts. I've worked with independent districts
where the total district enrollment is below 500 students and others with
10,000 or more. The strict definition of an independent school district is
one in which high school subjects that meet State standards are taught.
Therefore the district can "stand alone," and does not have to send its
older students to a large consolidated high school - usually a county high
school. (Historically, small towns built grammar schools to keep the smaller
kids close to home. The students who continued past 8th grade traveled to
the county high school.)
 
These little districts are very political and the principal becomes a
demi-god. Kind of a big fish in a small pond syndrome. It wouldn't surprise
me if this isn't a thinly veiled attempt to get rid of a potential drain on
the school district's resources - a 28 year teacher who would probably
retire shortly and start drawing a pension. If I were the teacher's attorney
one of the things I would be looking at would be termination records for a
pattern. 
 
Becky Fitzgerald
Susquehanna Museum
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This is an independent school district - does that mean it's a charter
school??? If so - there's probably no protection, even for a 28-year honored
teacher....

Lois Brynes <[log in to unmask]> wrote: 
This is HORRID. Is there anything we can do to take action? 
 
 
On Sep 27, 2006, at 8:03 AM, Lynne wrote:



http://www.wjactv.com/mostpopular/9936513/detail.html
 
and my mouth is still agape.
Lynne
 
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