EDITOR’S NOTE: The story below was written after the Aug. 5 meeting of the Meeker School Board but before the open executive session on Monday this week. At the Monday meeting, the board and Dorsett were unable to agree on terms.
Dorsett wanted to be contractually shielded from MHS Principal Kim Ibach’s supervision and from “a hostile work place,” as he described the situation at the high school. District Superintendent Mark Meyer and the board…
Just read an article from this book: Excellent Sheep: The Miseducation of the American Elite and The Way to a Meaningful Life by William Deresiewicz. Out Aug. 19, from Free Press.
This excerpt hits home in many ways:
If you want a good education, you need to have good teachers. It seems ridiculous to have to say as much, but such is the state that matters have reached, both in academia and in the public conversation that surrounds it, that apparently we do.