1/ Teacher in Sunnyside USD found to be on 12-year probation for RAPE of a minor girl
2/ PHX Union teacher asks for nude photos from female student, texts sexual comments:
3/ Substitute under investigation out-of-state for "inappropriately touching female students"
4/ Douglas teacher pursues coffee dates with female student, asks what she thought "if a grown man asked a younger girl out of coffee" - slips a photo of a coffee cup with a heart inside in her notebook
5/FOR A YEAR - Willow Canyon HS teacher texts female student: "Hey cutie," "I'll slap you like Will Smith"
SRO called to investigate "grooming" - district turns over to Surprise police.
6/ PVUSD teacher uses social media to have "inappropriate communication" with "at least one" student
7/ "Lonely" teacher has "inappropriate communications" with a minor female, sends hand-written letters and text messages...says he has "feelings" for her because he's alone
8/ Flagstaff police investingating teacher for unrelated matters, finds text history w/female student: "I will do anything for you," "angel," "I will do whatever needs to be done to make your dreams come true."
Father intervenes. Uses other students to convey more messages.
9/ Teacher discovered to have fathered a child with former student in California, sexual relationship for two years while still in school,...eventually divorces wife to marry former student.
>>certificate REVOKED
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📢AZ Auditor General Issues 2024 Report on School Spending: More Therapy, Less instruction
▶️For 3rd year in a row, school spending on instruction 📉 both statewide and at most districts
▶️Schools continue 📈spending for student support (counseling programs, nursing, audiologists)
▶️New historic low on instructional spend:
52.6% vs 58.6% in 2004
1/n
Over 58% of all schools decreased instructional spending last year, average cut of 0.8%. 2/
Instructional spending for core academic functions continues to be sacrificed to pay salaries for more non-academic, non-instructional social services 3/n
🚨🚨BREAKING NOW - EMERGENCY MEETING OF AZ STATE BOARD OF EDUCATION - BANKRUPT SCHOOL DISTRICT WITH $12,344,641 BUDGET SHORTFALL TO GO INTO RECEIVERSHIP
▶️ Auditor General presents SBE on timeline of overspending and refusals to comply with internal controls and financial reporting
Auditor General - tried for 5 years to stop mismanagement of funds!!!
Auditor General - operating budget drops 86.1% in 1 year
capital budget drops 87.2%!
“Functional behavioral assessments have typically been a special education strategy to help schools determine — through data and observations — if a behavior resulted from a student’s disability and to help guide interventions…”
“New guidance from the U.S. Department of Education promotes the use of individualized behavioral assessments and support plans for students with and without disabilities to help schools address problem behaviors and reduce suspensions and expulsions.”
📢SBE Committee on K-3 Literacy:
Shocking decline in 3rd grade reading scores over 9 years, but only fail 0.3% of students!
➡️"Minimally proficient" goes 📈 43% to 50%, means 50% not qualified for 4th grade
Asks ADE director, can we raise expectations?
A: We haven't looked at that yet, wanted you guys to talk first...but we have a "wonderful" guru
1/n
3rd grade reading scores show a 9-yr failing system:
➡️Min Proficient: 43 to 50%
➡️"Partially" Proficient : 16 to 11%
➡️ Just proficient: 30 to 26%
➡️"Highly" Proficient: 11 to 13% 2/n
Minimally proficient reading scores qualifies for "retention" - meaning, should be held back unless there are "qualifying circumstances"
➡️Data shows 99.7% of all those who fail are sent to 4th grade anyway
3/n
📢School Board Race | Paradise Valley USD: Reformers Challenge Fossilized 20-Yr Leadership “Guarding” Ailing District as Plummeting Proficiency Scores and ESA Exits Continue
➡️ Enthusiasm for 20-yr board president up for reelection (and 2 cohorts) is so low, PV teachers union gets grant from state union to pay members $20/hr to hold signs at football games, knock doors
🧵1/n
State union’s recent grant meant to get door knockers and sign holders at $20/hour - more than even union advocates for teachers aides 2/n
Union seeks to pump up enthusiasm, offering above market prices, just to get some semblance of teacher support at football games. 3/n
The American School Counselor Association urges members to promote “all aspects of sexual wellness” for its connection to psychological connection to human development.
Is there a downside to seeing children as sexual beings/patients? 🧵