http://www.mishkazena.com/2006/11/29/ms-fssa-reports-on-msd-protest/ Just another WordPress weblog Sun, 15 Jan 2012 09:35:46 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2.1 http://www.mishkazena.com/2006/11/29/ms-fssa-reports-on-msd-protest/comment-page-1/#comment-711 straight talker Sun, 03 Dec 2006 17:58:51 +0000 http://blog.deafread.com/mishkazena/2006/11/29/ms-fssa-reports-on-msd-protest/#comment-711 Elizabeth, To answer your question about why the teacher would apply at MSD...She was recruited by the principal and told she did not have to have sign language skills upon hire. Which went against the policy in the handbook, which requires all staff to sign at all times on campus. The prinicpal's motivation was to hire more african american teachers regardless of credentials. Many of them were recruited and hird from her church congregation as she feels it is God who has deemed her the one to help her church members with regards to a job. For the record, many people at the school feel there should be a balance in the ratio of the race with regards to the teachers. One serious issue is that the one deaf education program in the state is enrolled by mostly white students majoring in deaf education. And with the lack of recruiting out of state by MDE for qualified deaf ed. teachers, this leaves most of the candidates applying for teaching jobs being the students from the one program in the state to offer deaf ed. Basically, this teacher would have never been hired by someone with any understanding of deaf ed. or sensitivty to deaf culture, or ASL!!!!! Yes the teacher was in the wrong for applying, but the ball falls directly in the court of the former principal and the superintendent who allowed the hiring of this teacher. MDE trusted the administrators to do the appropriate thing for the students and their education. Afterall, that is what they were charged to do and paid to do! Elizabeth,
To answer your question about why the teacher would apply at MSD…She was recruited by the principal and told she did not have to have sign language skills upon hire. Which went against the policy in the handbook, which requires all staff to sign at all times on campus. The prinicpal’s motivation was to hire more african american teachers regardless of credentials. Many of them were recruited and hird from her church congregation as she feels it is God who has deemed her the one to help her church members with regards to a job. For the record, many people at the school feel there should be a balance in the ratio of the race with regards to the teachers. One serious issue is that the one deaf education program in the state is enrolled by mostly white students majoring in deaf education. And with the lack of recruiting out of state by MDE for qualified deaf ed. teachers, this leaves most of the candidates applying for teaching jobs being the students from the one program in the state to offer deaf ed. Basically, this teacher would have never been hired by someone with any understanding of deaf ed. or sensitivty to deaf culture, or ASL!!!!! Yes the teacher was in the wrong for applying, but the ball falls directly in the court of the former principal and the superintendent who allowed the hiring of this teacher. MDE trusted the administrators to do the appropriate thing for the students and their education. Afterall, that is what they were charged to do and paid to do!

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