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Re: art coordinators. Kathleen Gaffney

From: KPRS (KPRS)
Date: Fri Mar 10 2000 - 16:48:23 PST

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    Re: Arts Coordinators

    Ha! that's a good one! While my colleagues and I have been under someone
    who has the title of "coordinator" or "superviser" for the last 20 years, we
    have NEVER had an art coordinator or superviser. We have been under
    (including but not limited to) the following people who have had the title
    of coordinator or superviser tacked onto their names. The vice principal,
    the music/art/industrial arts/technology/foreign language
    superviser/coordinator, the curriculum director.

    I have done most of the paperwork, and 'coordinating' between my colleagues
    (read--if I don't do it, we won't get anything), and the person who is
    supervising us currently along with 4 other departments has been our
    superviser for the last 13 years. When our district was larger, the four
    art teachers met regularly at the local diner, set agenda and priorities,
    wrote curriculum, shared tips and supplies, and then GAVE our superviser HIS
    "lines" to present to the powers that be. While it may sound like a lot of
    work, we have not had one class cut in the past 13 years. Now that our
    schools have seperated, our school "won" the afore mentioned superviser, and
    two of the four art teachers. We still tell him what to say and do.
    Yesterday he asked me how many sections of yearbook I taught this year. (I
    haven't taught yearbook in 5 years), and he asked me if the music teacher
    had to accompany his choir to our local Teen Arts Festival (the district
    hates to sent more than one teacher out with kids on a field trip-and Teen
    Arts is just that-more than one kind of art) and I said, "well no, but when
    I lead his choir in the competition ,do you think they would mind if I
    didn't know what the hell I was doing with the baton????(and they PAY this
    guy $95,000 to supervise us!!)

    Don't get me started!

    San D 

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