Teachers form last ditch effort to save jobs

In a board meeting this week, GCS educators crammed the Central Office Board Room to protest ongoing job cuts. N&R has more on this.

N&R:

Critics questioned the proposal to cut teachers based on employment status and not performance.

“We just don’t understand why teachers whose classes are scoring ones on exams aren’t being cut while interim teachers with classes making threes and fours are,” said Crystal Taylor, a Western Guilford High teacher.

Taylor said programs aimed at students who refuse to learn should be cut as well.

School board members called on their staff to find other areas to trim and to make saving teachers’ jobs the priority. “We’re not looking hard enough,” board member Darlene Garrett said.

Garrett said the board should consider cutting tests not required by the state and busing for magnet school programs.
“I can tell you we’re having those difficult conversations,” Green said.

Separately, your school board decided not to unload a formerly-used school building in the Lindley Park neighborhood.

So...this building is just going to sit there...wow.

E.C. :)