Deborah Traylor was written up for taking pictures and video in an active test site. Washington and now others have covered it up or, have tried to. Now, other school districts have heard about this too. Fort Worth ISD is the laughingstock of North Texas education system! I wonder why these two left Dallas ISD? There needs to be an investigation of the top administrators including Scribner because he has been in this district long enough to know the elitists bullying and snobbery that, like puss, has infected Fort Worth ISD for years!
In the gymnasium at Morningside Middle School, Deborah Traylor took out her phone while students were testing and took pictures and video without prior approval form TEA!
She was written up by the three teachers who saw her make this bone-headed move and, as of yet, nothing has happened to her.
She didn’t say why she was doing this but later used the excuse that she was taking pictures because there was too much teacher movement and gym was being used because it made the test coordinator’s job easier. Not true at all. It’s called active monitoring and teachers are required to do this at all times even when they aren’t testing. They have been written up for not being up and moving around the room.
Two things, first, it is a known fact that, as quoted from the State of Texas Assessments of Academic Readiness, Test Administrator Manual, “No person may duplicate, print, record, write notes about, or capture (electronically or by any other means) any portion of a secure assessment instrument (paper or online) without prior approval from TEA. Districts may not duplicate and retain student compositions.”
If Traylor had permission from TEA why was she written up by the people who witnessed her actions? What were her original intentions for taking photographs and video? Did she have a 24 hour palsy that produced tremors that made her yank out her phone and take pictures and video?
Second, did she also check each student’s Media Release Forms to know if the parents gave permission for their children to be photographed? No one seems to care about that! Are students not more important than standardized tests?
If any teacher, teacher’s assistant or staff had illegally, as Traylor did, photographed or videoed an active test site they would have been fired immediately! And she would have enjoyed making it happen!
As it is now, Traylor still has a job and is blaming the teachers and the test coordinator. In fact she is now following up on her fabricated excuse by making it impossible for testing to take place in the gym at all. This site is desperately needed and has been working for four years and there’s never been a problem…until now when Deborah Traylor was caught taking picture without prior approval from TEA.
Morningside faculty has to cram the students that would normally be in the gym into classrooms that are too small. There will be 30 students in each testing room and extra people will have to be pulled to make this happen.
The students will be cramped and behaviors will escalate. It’s almost like she’s trying to sabotage Morningside Middle School but, why and at what expense?
We have something tangible to hang on to that highlights the favoritism and illegal actions by people who, up until now, have gotten away with this kind of garbage.
This is why public education isn’t working! People at the top who can’t get over the fact that they actually made something out of themselves. Gigantic egos and social skills that rival Saddam Hussein’s; I’m not kidding! This has got to stop! We cannot let this go! If we do, we just might deserve it, and that’s just not true.
This is our conduit educators! (not that we needed one/or/ more) Don’t let it go!!!
Civil disobedience worked for Gandhi and Martin Luther; they did the right thing! Do the teachers of FWISD have the same ambition? Absolutely! There are around 5000 teachers, many paraprofessionals and admin! The tail’s wagging the dog. We need to take our district back!!! So from now until something is done we are wearing purple bracelets. Purple for peace (because we have more class). It’s time to go Gandhi educators!
Warning: Anyone who punishes anyone for wearing a purple bracelet and/or other objects (clothing) is subject to legal action and exposure for being an asshole; assuming it’s not already a well-known fact.
There are many people who have been hurt by Deborah Traylor and Cherie Washington. How many of our names do they remember? We all know theirs! It isn’t very often a person encounters someone as mean and heartless as these women and the people around them so, we remember them. People who have fed their ego with bits and pieces of their pride, dignity and humility.
Deborah Traylor and Cherie Washington, when it is time for you face God will he say, “Thank you for caring so deeply for my children, your brothers and sisters or, will he look at you unsmiling with sadness and ask, “Why did you treat my children that way?”
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