Comments on: Evaluating Vigil

By: bev

bev — Tue, 24 Jul 2007 00:46:04 +0000

He’s your headache now. No surprises here. He got terminated in my district about 4 years ago, along with all his cronies. Glad to see he hasn’t changed. Sad to see he hasn’t changed.

By: Kary Loredo-Welch

Kary Loredo-Welch — Fri, 13 Jul 2007 18:38:56 +0000

Hey there everyone… a few things regarding Jenns post…

If a child is “grandfathering” at the school they attended last year then they will have transportation as they did last year. If a child is an ‘open enrollement’ student then no transportation will be available for that child. It is important to be sure that the school the child is attending is the school that was the ‘assigned school’ prior to the boarder changes.

The opening of school is not going to be easy this school year with so many acancies, changes in staff and moved students. We need to continue to work together to get answers and share them with each other.

Incidents like what happened to you while you were at Burbank are unaccaptable. It is time that we as parents start a process of documentation in order to do something about them. We are working toward putting together a process of reporting things like what happened to you and have a committee to help follow up on them. For now, please document the things that are happening by noting the day, time and person’s name and a brief description of what happened and we’ll try to work together to compile a list of these things so that we can do something about them.

Kary

By: debra j sarver

debra j sarver — Mon, 09 Jul 2007 22:26:40 +0000

As of July, 189 credentialed job openings listed. Dr. Vigil has driven these people out of the district. Note the listings for teacher-trainers in the District Office. As best as I can guesstimate, this is taking another million dollars out of the schools to put into the district office. It also removes experienced teachers from the classroom.

By: Jenn

Jenn — Fri, 06 Jul 2007 19:27:46 +0000

yes the secretary used that language with me and when I went back to Park and told them
what had happened over a Burbank , I was told that they were not surpised !!!!! So yes, someone knows about her behavior, but I bet very little was/or is going to be done about it !!!!!!!!!
I am Fed uo HUSd, thier staff and the views are what is right for our children and yes his Mental Health bills for what she said , he has been some tramactic things with father and he is just beginning to get back to his old self and the freaking says what says, NO WAY IN HELL WOULD I EVER SEND MY KID TO THAT SCHOOL !!!!!!!!!!!!! and when I fall down from walking my kid back and forth to school everyday and injure my back more, the district can pay those bills too !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
I am a parent who is very fed with Vigil and the HUSD !!!!!!!!!!

By: fernando hernandez

fernando hernandez — Fri, 06 Jul 2007 15:05:26 +0000

I can see why you would be upset if you were told one thing back in March and now they seem to have changed their mind but…

I’m a little confused:

Why would the district pay for your son’s mental health bills?
Are you implying that going to Burbank is going to cause the mental brake down of your child?

If the secretary use that very lenguage with you, you should probably take it up with her boss, she should be reprimended.

By: Jenn

Jenn — Thu, 05 Jul 2007 21:34:44 +0000

sorry I accidently hit post comment !!!
As I was saying, so then I went to the district and Park school and both said that transportation would be provided to him even though I was sending to Burbank, Park would have a bus for those kids that got )to say) grandfathered in!!!!!!!! I am still goiong to send him to Park ,
because there is no way in hell I will send him to Burbank after that comment was made , the district in my book , if I had to evaluate it today as of this minute would recieve an F all together !!!!!!!!!!

By: Jenn

Jenn — Thu, 05 Jul 2007 21:30:08 +0000

well Vigil has given Hayward Parents false hopes once again folks, last week we all got letters ,
about are children’s placement of school for 07/08 year , and in that letter it says that all children on open-enrollment would have to find transportation to school , why is that in
March of this year when we all had to fill out those papers about what school we want our children to go to, we wre told by the district/transportation that if your child went to that school last year and u wished wished for him/her to stay there (grandfathered in ), they would be transportation for those children and now all the sudden with the way the letter reads , there is not going to be!!!!!!!!!! I am a disabled single parent and this is going to cut into my budget like u would not believe and sure I go send to the school that the district says he is suppossed to go to , but IS HUSD willing to pay for my son’s mental health bills , considering that I was going to be a good Hayward parent and go with Vigil’s proposed boundary changes and send to him to Burbank, but when I went to get the paperwork , the lady in the office said that they were not going to put up PARKS unwanted trash!!!!!!!!!!!!!

By: fernando hernandez

fernando hernandez — Sun, 24 Jun 2007 14:55:11 +0000

Has anyone read Vigil’s evaluation by the Board? Or is this one of those “personnel matters” that we have to fight the board to see?

I beleive the evaluation was done during a “closed session”, but…

Kim: Is there a time when this document becomes public? I would love to see what it says, after all, we taxpayears pay him his salary

By: another tired teacher

another tired teacher — Sun, 10 Jun 2007 04:07:16 +0000

Thank you Fernando. A couple more years of study and I could be teaching at a university an dno one would be questioning me. Alas, I am doomed to the constant critique of the public because of my love of children…oh well.

Jeff, I work 50+ hour weeks typically thank you Jeff, and all weekend and during the summer actually and am only paid for 30 hours a week, and not paid for any holidays unlike just about all other workers. Summers and “vacations” are also unpaid. The district portions out our pay to us throughout the year, but we are only actually paid for the days we work. We are not allowed to ever take “vacations” during the year, never more than 3 days in a row without a doctor’s note. Like Fernando said, for all those who think it’s so easy, then become a teacher. It is not so easy. There are many exams that are costly, not to mention a degree, credential, and a series of lengthy exams after that. Most teachers also continue on and get a Masters degree. That is a lot more education, and a lot more money spent on education than the average worker Jeff. And, the education must continue forever to renew your credential.

As far as Vigil getting the district in the black, why is no one acknowledging the things that Janice Duran did, and set in motion before Vigil was ever even considered for the job? He gets a lot more credit than he is due.

By: fernando hernandez

fernando hernandez — Tue, 05 Jun 2007 16:05:03 +0000

Jeff:

Teachers get paid ONLY for the hours they WORK, just like everyone else…

(actually, many teachers spend many hours working doing things they do not get paid for, but lets forget about that work!)

Why is it greedy to demand a fair wage for the hours WORKED?.

If anyone else wants the benefits of time off when school is out, they should become teachers and then be very carefull to save their pennies during the school year, so that when summer time comes around, they have the means to live through the vacation.

Vigil might have gotten the district back on the black in just a couple of years, but lets remember he did this on the backs of the teachers and other service employees of the district.

As a tax payer and resident of Hayward, I would have rather taken three years to get back in the black if this would have avoided the strike.

The damage done to the trust between the parents / teachers in Hayward and the Board and Vigil/Schimmel will last for a long time, particularly on account of all the lies told to parents by the Board and the Administrators while the strike went on and on…

Having been lied to about the safety at the schools and the learning environment during the strike, I don’t feel I can fully trust HUSD, and the thought of my child being stuck in school after THE BIG ONE hits if I can’t get to the school to pick her up is really scary.

Is HUSD really prepared to care, house and feed thousands of kids in their trust after a devastating earthquake blocks roads so parents can’t pick up their children?

I doubt it.