Teacher who gave zeros threatened with termination

[alp227]

The Edmonton teacher who was suspended for giving students zeros in defiance of school policy is one step closer to losing his job.

Lynden Dorval was told in a letter he received last week from Ron Bradley, principal of Ross Sheppard High School, that he is facing termination.

After criticizing Dorval for not returning unmarked exams, assignments and lab reports after he was suspended — and not leaving lesson plans for his replacement — Bradley informs the physics and science teacher that his job is on the line.

"I find it utterly reprehensible that you would sit on these exams and assignments for weeks without alerting the school," Bradley wrote in the letter, which is dated June 18th.

full: http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/edmonton/story/2012/06/25/edmonton-teacher-no-zero-policy-letter-termination.html

Original story: "Edmonton teacher suspended for giving 0s" (most of us appear to support Mr. Dorval.)

[msongs]

1. umm suspended teachers should NOT have to leave lesson plans, they are suspended nt

[Sherman A1]

2. Agreed

Unless those lesson plans were already written and in the school building. That said, once the school suspended the teacher for whatever reason, that is the end of their working and providing lesson plans is work.

[Viking12]

5. agreed. but he should have returned exams and assignments.

Those are technically the students' property. He should have turned them over promptly and, if he hadn't evaluated/graded the materials before his suspension, that responsibility should fall on the administrators that suspended him.

[backscatter712]

3. What kind of idiots come up with these policies? Can't give a kid a zero for not turning in work?

It's not that hard - if you don't turn in your work as a student, you get a zero.

That was ALWAYS the rule where I went to school. That a teacher is getting suspended, likely fired for giving a student a bad grade after he failed to do the work, is completely insane.

[Javaman]

4. Ironic really.

Dorval gets suspended for giving zeros to kids who didn't turn in their work.

yet he gets suspended for not turning in his lesson plan.

I guess the principal in question fails to see the irony.