The teachers at our high school who were told their contracts would be terminated were told it was TEA that was recommending the termination because of low test scores/CEIs.

A recent phone caller to TEA was told that the DISD was reconstituting the schools in question not TEA and it was the DISD who had recommended their termination.

These teachers have also been told verbally that they cannot teach in the field of their core certification in the DISD ever again. (though we can teach in the DISD in another certification or we can teach our core certification in another district.)

If they are truly such terrible teachers and responsible for low student test scores why would they be allowed to teach anywhere at all?Unless this round of terminations is simply a dog and pony show for the benefit of the taxpayers. (See... we got rid of the teachers who did this! Aren't we great administrators?)

The general feeling among the teachers I talk to is that we are easy scapegoats for the issues that are too complex to fix cheaply... low parent participation, teen pregnancy, drug use, apathy, criminal behavior and a generation that expects reward for simply showing up