Bob Jones to principals: You may be evaluated on staff morale!

From RH Jones, April 26, 2011
Subject: Principals to be evaluated on staff morale

To all principals, and supervisors over teachers:

When I was in the Army ROTC back in 1950, I learned that Gen. Eisenhower, who later became the U.S. President, emphasized that all officers would be evaluated on one thing and one thin only: troop morale.

As you know your Ohio Governor Kasich, the GOP controlled legislature and senate are for merit pay and doing away with negotiations for teacher unions; and, the fact that teacher morale has been reported to be at an all-time low due to SB 5 (the union busting legislation). Therefore, if SB 5 is allowed to become Ohio Revised Code, you may be evaluated on the morale of your staff members. I find that ironic, as I know the most of you may have voted for John Kasich and his team “hell bent” on privatizing traditional public schools.

Also, as you know, tenure, class size and other negotiated items are under attack. That creates an atmosphere of poor working conditions for teachers and their students. Low morale will become the norm, and you know it.

Therefore, I strongly suggest, in your own interests and those of other administrators, teachers, students and parents, to take a strong position to rid our great State of Ohio of those politicians who would destroy our traditional public school system. I urge you to become proactive before your superiors evaluate you on how happy your staff happens to be.

Good-faith negotiations are the product of a mature civilized society.

This is the opinion of a retired teacher,
RHJones