Oakland can't fire nutsy teacher

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From: Richard Fangnail
Date: Mon, 19 Mar 2007 17:34

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A Real Class Act
By Robert Gammon
Published: March 14, 2007

Should Oakland schoolteacher Doreen Callender be fired? Should she
ever be allowed to teach again?

Callender has taught in Oakland public schools for 21 years, and when
the 2006-07 school year began, she was assigned to a fourth-grade
class at Emerson Elementary. The students at the West Oakland school
are among the most troubled in the city and desperately need good
teachers. Nearly 70 percent come from families living in poverty, and
the school consistently scores among the worst in the state on
standardized tests.

Indeed, some of Callender's fourth-graders had difficulty writing
simple sentences, yet on September 14, just two weeks into the school
year, she decided the best course for them was to watch a movie. The
sixty-year-old teacher had a pressing personal issue to deal with on
her classroom computer, so important that students later said she
yelled at them when they tried to get her attention.

She was doing her son's college homework....

http://www.eastbayexpress.com/2007-03-14/news/a-real-class-act/

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