Aquinas: nope, this is a public high school. Though the effect at both is the same.

Based on the stuff I've seen and read over the years, I suspect that the definition of "professional conduct" used by schools is very different from what the rest of the world uses. Or maybe they just attach the word "ideally" to the standard definition and let things slide.

Only schools could claim that teacher assessment is unfair, that $70K per year (average in our district) with 3 months off is underpaid, and that their problems are really mom and dad's fault.

Sorry. I'm going on ten years of this stuff and am getting increasingly bitter.

I will contact the principal this evening when my head is cooler.