What happens to whistleblowing teachers?

I have just had an interesting offline discussion prompted by my reflections in "Failing up". The former teacher does not want to go public, but has said I can tell his story. Joe was a Head of Department in a large school, responsible for a department with eleven other teachers, and all Language Arts programs for almost 1000 students. He also had a Principal who had failed up.

Close Distancing

Over the last few weeks. I have noticed something a little odd. I have seen lines of people waiting outside a bank, a drugstore, a school. I am sure that these lines indicate well-meaning, public health motivated measures so why is this odd? 

Bad Science

Regular readers will know that I once founded a school, and when doing so, I made a program decision that Preschool and Elementary teachers would be generalists, ie they would teach all the core subjects, and that Middle and High School teachers would be specialists, ie they would teach one or two subjects only. I also implemented an Elementary program where the core subjects were all integrated, and "science" or "geography" as such did not exist. Things went well, very well in fact.

What's in your wallet? Not Capital One.

I was listening to the radio this morning and a commercial caught my ear. It reminded me why I will not go near Capital One.