ISR

[chinagal58]

Oh how one must lament the fact of poor school heads with nothing to do but sit around and try to get back at those who criticize them. I can just see them sitting around at Bambi Betts’ AISH conference talking about those who lambaste them. It does make me wonder, did they all subscribe to ISR online, or do they “jeopardize their membership� by sharing one password? Bad boys! Funny, for such an organization, what do the Heads of the real schools do? Like the Big 8 in Asia or Dubai, Cairo, Sao Paulo, and others? Do they just look away as these conversations take place? After all, they are not included in this forum to the extent of others, some of them are not included at all, but one thinks they must be embarrassed at having to patronize those who have been so ‘unjustly characterized’ online. I am sure that many of them are not surprised at those who are written about. Having to support bad leadership in international education must be humiliating at best, while at the same time pretending to try to improve it. The non-inclusion of most of these heads of good schools, in these jobs because they are good heads, gives even more credence to the fact that it is those lambasted online that do have severe deficiencies in leadership and personal relations capacities that lead to these online characterizations. Maybe they should spend their time looking at the situations presented by those ‘evil’ teachers and give some advice on how they could have better handled those situations. The posts might be anonymous but clearly there are situations that are mishandled, mismanaged, poorly communicated and downright unjust. It is understandable that many of these heads act as proxies of owners or poorly run boards, but again, it is their own fault that they are not capable enough to work within their own job to manage, communicate, and lead in a way that allows the community to understand that dynamic in a school. Circling the wagons, and making their angst so public, will not improve the situation. Especially when they are engaged the practice of protecting their own. Seeing their laundry washed in such a manner in public must let them know they do not have an effective communication mechanism in place on their own campus. Do they not realize that? What changes will they make in their own practice before they try to change others?

[fran]

I'm getting the idea loud and clear that the TIE On Line People first blasted ISR in their news paper and on their web site and are now posting this trash in this web site. I haven't seen them post any statements from ISR or from teachers that support ISR. Of course not. Browman and the rest of them have enjoyed no accountability for years and years. Now, the very teachers they claim to support are being belittled by them. TIE plays both sides of the game. The schools are their high paying clients and the teachers are just the gravey, to be poured off at will. I know for fact that TIE and AISH were attempting to organize a law suite against ISR and tried to shut it down. Looks like that didn't work out so now they will try to dilute the site by posting their trash on the ISR site. Shame on you!!!!! The attitude that all directors are just great guys and educators are just sitting around taking pot shots at them is idiotic at best. Suddenly the disenfranchised have the power and they can't deal with it. The times they are a changing.