In February, Superintendent Mike Miles hosted a visit to the district by TEA Commissioner Mike Morath . Shown here with Kashmere High Principal Brandon Dickerson.Last week, when a jubilant Houston ISD Superintendent Mike Miles unveiled the results of a teacher survey, he said “the numbers clearly show” that teachers are committed to team HISD and its ongoing transformation.
Actually, there was never any confidentiality. To our surprise. Results were passed on to each teacher's principal. Imagine if you are a teacher with roughly three months to go in your current contract and you tell the district you plan to leave. It doesn’t even matter if you have a job lined up or not, those months are going to be a certain kind of hell.
If the district truly wanted to know how teachers felt about going or staying, they would have had an outside firm do an anonymous survey with no personal identifiable information attached to teacher responses.And then there's the 45-day rule. It comes into play 45 days before the first day of instruction. Under the Texas Election Code, public school teachers in Texas have till then to notify the district they are not going to honor their contract.