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Originally Posted by Deidrapsych
ALS463...Let me assure you that this story that I am telling is real and I am not exaggerating. I work in DC Public Schools and yes a principal can hire anyone they want to to serve as the manager of special education (LEA rep). Hiring a sped teacher is different. A sped teacher must have credentials and certification. An LEA rep can be anyone. DC has become a system of nepotism and due to gentrification...it has become a racist system also. They changed the criteria of the manager of special education (LEP rep) to someone who does not need a specific degree or certification. You can check behind me. Call human resources (202) 442-4090 and ask...if they answer the phone.
This woman has a degree but its not in education. She came in from a charter school and transferred to the public school due to her relationship with the principal.
Does this story sound fishy...heck yeah! Its very frustrating. Amiblue, Im not the fishy one. There is an actual perp (in many ways) at my job and your advice would be helpful...thanks.  |
I used to work in the same school system and also dealt with a perp. I am not saying you should do what I did.
This chick was hired as a computer lab teacher. The way the position was coded, you didn't really have to be a teacher at all, but the cheap and unethical principal basically turned it into a "special" to give more planning time to the teachers. However, you were obviously placing students in care of a woman who was not a real teacher. I do not even think she had a degree.
So she claimed to be an AKA. I was like oh cool, you got plenty of sorors in the building. Then she got quiet. So I go to one of the other AKA teachers and say hey, such and such is a soror (I'm an Alpha).
Long story short, after a few more casual conversations and observing that the woman did not make any effort to know the other AKAs, it was widely concluded that she was lying.
In the interim, there was some other explosive drama with this woman that did not involve me, but did interfere with the school climate as a whole.
After she left that school, she went to another. I had business in the school with a fraternity brother and saw her there. The bro, the principal, saw that I had an immediate negative reaction to her. A conversation was held and she eventually was involuntarily transferred. Not BECAUSE of me, but because she had a poor reputation otherwise.
The moral: Perps never prosper. Once you're exposed as a liar it's downhill from there. I don't think it's your responsibility to report her to anyone else, but I do think that social, off the clock conversations need to be had with other sorors so that everyone is on the same page.