re: Tangipahoa teacher's baby alleged to be fathered by student; UPDATE teacher resigns

Mary Kay Latourneau redux?

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Mary Kay Latourneau

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Ah, the one that started it all....

Screwing her 6th grade student...

One thing I didn't know...

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Letourneau died July 6, 2020, at her home in Des Moines, Washington from colorectal cancer. She was 58. Fualaau and her family were at her side despite their separation. In her will and testament, Letourneau left much of her estate to Fualaau

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Damn still no pics?

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So now that there are pics or should I say a pic, what is her name?

RIP Junkyard Dog

That idiot- she should have been on birth control.

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I hope you understand this and most people in Tangi do not---

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I’ve been teaching in Tangipahoa Parish for 28 years, I’m very much aware.

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The school board members in Tangi all wink and nod and try to explain away their failure using the discrimination lawsuit. That has become a flippant excuse for piss poor management and performance.

TPSS should be shut down and charter operators invited in to manage the schools and rehire the teachers they want and use the buildings they need.

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I agree that things could be managed much better, but the deseg lawsuit is still, without question, the largest factor in the decline in scores.

Bottom line, it’s all a bunch of double talk. Rigorous, Tier 1 curriculum, but don’t fail too many. School safety, but a discipline policy that makes it impossible. Far too concerned about coddling the ridiculous demands of parents instead of upholding an educational standard.

We are preached to about “best practices” and “research based data,” but it’s all a bunch of crap that doesn’t work and changes from year to year.

The last ten years have made this occupation so undesirable that people who are completely unqualified are being put into vacant teaching positions. Stuff like that leads to more incidents like that in the OP.

I’m in my second year of DROP, and only have the rest of this year and one more, but I often question whether I’ll continue through next year. The entire system is unsustainable and untenable, as I’ve said here multiple times.

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What’s your opinion of Melissa Stilley?

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WBRZ just reported that it's the student that's pregnant. Is that correct?

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Of course they’d want a male to be pregnant

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We are preached to about “best practices” and “research based data,” but it’s all a bunch of crap that doesn’t work and changes from year to year.

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Funny, our local county judge, who goes MIA for weeks at a time in drug rehab/burnout stints, was known for dropping those phrases on administrators and budget staff whenever they tried to explain anything.

"Best practices" and "metrics" must be taught at bureaucratic conferences and seminars as the current preferred buzzwords to drop when you have no idea how anything works, and zero knowledge of past results.

They remind me of people who say "approximately" and "this individual" and shite when they're trying to sound smart on the local news.