If veteran teachers are gone, who will be mentors?
I read with interest the letter from Eugene White, superintendent of Indianapolis Public Schools, concerning the Teaching Fellows program (My View, Jan. 25).
I admire White's enthusiasm for the program and applaud the professionals who choose to give up other careers for an opportunity to make a difference in children's lives. However, I have one question: With the rate at which IPS is forcing teachers into early retirement, laying them off, involuntarily transferring them and then replacing them with inexperienced teachers, who is going to be left to mentor these Teaching Fellows?
Pamela Woods-Jackson
Carmel
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I am a member of the first cohort of Indianapolis Teaching Fellows. I have worked in IPS for two years now, and will graduate in May with a Master’s in Education. IPS is not just treating veteran teachers unfairly, they are treating us all pretty bad, as a group. I just received word that I am scheduled to receive my pink slip on March 1st. Isn’t it interesting that IPS has a history of starting (i.e. throwing money at) innovative programs such as the Teaching Fellows program, only to let them dissolve two years later? There are two more cohorts of Teaching Fellows behind our group that IPS is financially invested in. Will they also lose their jobs after completion of the program? Points for Indianapolis taxpayers to ponder.
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