I need some advice from the group. Here's the background of my issue:
A few years ago our school was finally blessed with a new fine arts center. After it was built they needed someone to schedule and oversee the facility, and my principal asked me for a suggestion. I didn't think I could do it, especially with my heavy schedule of I.T.S. and two large shows, so there was a teacher here, who was a friend of mine at the time, that I suggested would be a good fit for it. My thinking was I would train this person on lights, sound, etc. and make myself available as a contact in these areas if necessary. Almost immediately this person changed, didn't want my help, and became a tyrant and we are no longer friends. I hate using our own space because of it now.
That's a very long story for another time, but here's my situation now. Of the six classes we all teach, they have given this teacher two additional planning periods, which means a total of 3 planning periods back to back. They also gave this teacher "The Business of Theatre: Management and Promotion (#0400515)" in order to give some students for staff training, but that particular course code is no longer offered by FLDOE, so for the past two years they've been using the course code for "Theatrical Direction and Stage Management 2 Honors (#0400510)", but still teaching the same thing (Soundboard, Light board, general set up and clean up). I spoke to guidance about it, but they say it is done all the time and not a problem for them.
My question for you is should I let it drop and just go about my business or send it up the ladder? I know they've done this sort of thing before because I've had football players come to me to get their grade adjusted for a theater one class, but it was actually just a weight lifting class that they had assigned a random course code to.
Thanks, Bruce Taws
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