That Now Falls Under…
I am so done with PPS’ constant renaming of things.
Integrated Services covers Talented and Gifted (TAG), English Language Learner (ELL) and Special Education (SPED) students. What does the general population get? Non-integrated services?
Reconstitution, restructuring, reorganization (which implies they had organization in the first place) and finally redesign (which still looks more like chance than design).
The Title I department no longer exists. It is now “Funded Programs”. Are there non-funded programs?
PPS can’t even keep up with the changes. The PPS “Departments” webpage says “Public Information Office. See Communications and Government Relations Department”. Ok but they don’t exist. Do they mean Communications and Community Engagement?
What do you suppose the job description database looks like?
Here are some words that they haven’t changed: paycheck, salary, holiday, and non-represented.
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Well, as a teacher, the only way I got through meetings in the 90′s and ‘oughts’ was by creating “Bullshit Bingo”. Seriously, I made up bingo cards with all the education jargon we were being fed starting in the “reconstitution” days of Bierwirth, right up to Carole & crew’s “Integrated Services” or whatever the hell it is. The first colleague to ‘X’ out a bingo sheet full of jargon didn’t win anything other than proving how much crap we were being fed at teacher’s meetings.
As if putting a new moniker on something really changes it? Not in the PPS, just a new way to create a new administrative job (aren’t there two “Integrated whatever” jobs currently posted online?), or recycle something that was around oh, a decade or two previously.
BULLSHIT BINGO IS ALIVE AND WELL. Maybe P.A.T, could hold bingo nights on Fridays for teachers, giving prizes? Sounds like fun!
Wish I’d saved my lists of all the programs and wordage over the years. Here’s a sampling: pods, communities, small schools, conversations, stakeholders, academies, etc. Then there are all the acronyms: IEP, ELL, ESL, FAP, OAKS, etc.
What’s in a name, anyway?
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