Saw this and thought of all the unqualified Principals and assistant Principals in schools today like the totally unqualified math teacher (she certified after leaving a business career, failed teaching exam first time) who became an AP in special education or the math AP who observed my AP calculus class with not a clue about what I was doing.  I could go on and on but every teacher reading this can add plenty of their own examples.  Also add in all the people who think they know everything about teaching because they went to school.

The reason school's have their heat on in June,

Dedicated to all the teachers who are still sitting through hours of meaningless professional development run by people who know nothing about what they are saying.

Saw this and thought of the ruination of schools today-incompetent, brainless, inexperienced supervisors and worse, people like Betsy DeVos with a cabinet post in charge of education.

Heaven help us all.

Same feedback from the uneducated, incompetent administrators who are observing and rating teachers.

 The same way school APs are chosen and these morons decide who is effective and who isn't.

I posted this on Facebook with a comment about how administrators think.  A friend pointed out, they
SCHEME are incapable of thinking.

Schools keep their top ratings doing exactly this.  Shame on them.  They are helping themselves at the expense of their students.

With lots of PD coming their way teachers will feel their life is more than doubled thanks to those wonderful sessions put together by the boobs commonly called Principals.

As I read this Dilbert cartoon this morning, I thought of school grades.  When too many students were failing regents, raw passing scores were lowered.  When kids failed classes, they were able to make them up by doing online assignments (or usually by having others do the assignments for them) or by showing up for two weeks at some Mickey Mouse class.  I even heard of an AP who let kids sign in for a gym class and then go to a room to have a teacher do the online assignment for with them.  It was reported to me that the same AP miraculously got failing grades on Friday to be passing grades on Monday.

The school is highly rated because it keeps graduation rates high.  It doesn't matter that kids are graduating knowing nothing and prepared for nothing and expect the world to keep operating in the same manner.

I saw this cartoon and thought about a supervisor who had know idea about anything she was supervising.  She picked the brains of the experienced and knowledgeable and then tossed them aside when there was nothing left to gnaw off.

You young ones beware.  She hired you because you are smarter than she is and you make her look good but she will toss you aside too once she has extracted all the good you have.

For all you teachers headed back to school, this is something you could really use for professional development and never ending meetings those first few days.

This is what you do when you know nothing and have zero education or experience and become boss.

Bet everyone knows an AP or Principal in this category.  I can think of a few but one really stands out.

When my former AP had a problem with something, we would meet, he would babble, I would say fine but he kept going and going. He knew I thought he was full of crap but fine was the only word I ever used.  He wanted an argument and I refused to give him one.

I know he was never happy at the end of a meeting.  I, on the other hand left feeling fine.  Scott Adams knows plenty of bosses like him to be able to put this in a cartoon.

This reminded me of the department conferences I used to attend.

Nothing the AP said made sense.  He never lacked for words either.

Ever wonder how some of those AP's become APs?  You know, the ones who never taught the subject they are put in charge of or the ones with 2 years experience, still wet behind the ears?
Well. leave it to Dilbert to explain how they got their jobs.