School Official in Dispute with State on Severance, Keansburg Superintendent Was Promised $740,000
That’s the headline and byline in an article in the New Jersey section of the New York Times dated July 6, 2008. Unless I missed something severance pay is something that people receive when they have been unexpectedly let go by their employers. They are given a few months pay to tide them over until they can get back on their feet and find another place of employment. I was a teacher and administrator in the New Jersey public schools for 27 years. I have many friends and acquaintances who have retired from their positions in New Jersey public school districts, some with more years than the Superintendent in question here, Barbara Trzeszkowski. And almost no one that I have ever heard of who has worked as an administrator in the New Jersey public schools has ever been awarded any severance package that included anything beyond money accumulated from unused sick or vacation leave. Barbara Trzeszkowski worked as the Superintendent of Keansburg for somewhere around 11 years. Before that, she was an elementary teacher there and the coordinator of curriculum and instruction for another 27 or so years. I can understand that she should receive her normal pension which would be somewhere around $120,000 a year. But it is beyond belief that she would also be awarded a severance package of $556,290.
I Am Looking For Essays On Character
I am currently in the process of writing a book titled “The 10 Essential Character Qualities That All children must Know.” At this time I am soliciting essays that I could include in the book on the following character qualities:
Initiative
Self-Control
Punctuality
Unselfishness
Honesty – Truthfulness
Kindness
Diligence
Responsibility
Respect
Patience
Character Is Everything: What Is Responsiblity?
Responsibility – Holding myself accountable for my thoughts, words, actions, attitudes, and motives. The opposite of responsibility is unreliability.
Educators today are under constant pressure to improve student test scores and to improve student overall academic performance. If a student’s standardized test scores are not up to snuff or if students have academic difficulty that can’t be explained the principal finds their way into the classroom for an observation, to try and find something wrong with the teacher’s instructional methods. The question that gets raised here is who is responsible for a student’s academic performance? I was not the very best student in elementary or in high school. I struggled just to get C’s and an occasional B and never in all my time as a student did anyone question how good my teachers were, instead I was questioned about what my responsibilities were as a student
Character Is Everything: What Is Respect?
Respect - Having a high regard for the rights, privileges, or worth of another person. The opposite of respect is disrespect.
Character Is Everything: What Is Punctuality?
Punctuality is a character quality that gets very little attention. Society today views a person who is 15 minutes late as being on time and has even have come up with a nice little phrase for being tardy, it’s called being fashionably late. So what is the definition of punctuality? Punctuality is the act of being ready to begin each task at the appointed time. The opposite of punctuality is tardiness. I don’t think anyone thinks of ever being exactly on time after they leave high school but today lateness is looked at with a much more relaxed attitude. Many years ago schools used to take lateness much more seriously than they do today. If you have ever been in a high school and observed students milling around in the hall between classes what you would notice is that the students don’t start moving to their class until the late bell rings. I have spoken to many teachers who have complained about student tardiness and asked them what they consider late? Most of the teachers said that they consider a student late if they arrive in class about one minute after the bell rings. That’s not on time, that’s late. Schools today are contributing to the problem of tardiness in society by not holding students accountable for either being late to class or late to school.
