Pleasantdale Board Members Overrule Superintendent, Question Curriculum!

March 12, 2014

The Doings Weekly
By: Chuck Fieldman | cfieldman@pioneerlocal.com | @chuckwriting

At least two members of the Pleasantdale Elementary School District 107 Board believe the district is playing catch up with its math curriculum because of inaccurate information provided by Superintendent Mark Fredisdorf...

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Despite spending over $100K in the 2013-2014 school year so far on a curriculum coordinator, a math curriculum audit, professional development, staff surveys, etc. one thing is certainly true:

Superintendent Mark Fredisdorf does not know much about curriculum and instruction!

We could have told the school board that a long time ago and saved the district a lot of money.

Earlier this year, when asked  to provide board members with the middle school language arts curriculum, he handed over a pile of papers. There was no mention of curriculum maps, pacing guides, textbooks, etc. Just a pile of about 1,000 worksheets and assessments!

The man has been a fraud for years and sadly it has taken board members this long to finally figure it out. He hides behind a hand picked ineffective working group he calls the curriculum council and uses them to push through his misguided agendas and ill thought out plans. Then when things go wrong, he has someone to blame it on. Recent survey results indicated only 11 members of his entire staff of over 100 feel that this group is effective. If that isn't a wakeup call, we don't know what is!

Hopefully this community will wake up and demand a change rather than continuing to spend $250K a year on nonsense.