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Mixed feelings. One, I don't like how readily they gave up his record. From experience I know that items documented in your record can be biased and subjective.

However, based on the items that are in his record, I'm surprised that he was able to continue to teach.

If the school board & principal are questioned, there answers seems to be to smear the questioner. Releasing records for 1st time in 20 yrs of someone who criticizing them seems rash & unfair.
If he is as bad as they say, what is the chance of him helping the students at Phillips. Is Principal Burns saying the Phillips students deserve less qualified teachers? This is a sad statement for Wake County. If he is a bad teacher, fire him & if not leave him to his class.

The superintendent's letter is simply a self serving statement to support the administration's actions. The teacher is evaluated each year, yet the superintendent has chosen not to release the evaluations, but to but forward a well after the fact litany of allegations. If these allegations are true, the teacher would have been dismissed years ago.

This prosetlyzing, mendacious idiot should be fired outright and immediately from the Wake County schools.

I'm sure that each teacher in Wake County is now feeling extremely secure about their personnel records. I believe that there could have been a bit more discretion involved.

I also am leery of items in personnel files. So much of what is said about an individual is based on being "politically correct" and bowing down to the system.

Additionally, many grievances in teacher's personnel files were sent in by parents whose children did not get A's and B's in the teacher's classes. This makes them automatically subjective.

I think one reason that he has taught so long is that he probably inspires the young people to think about political and moral issues.

When I was in college, one of my professors would frequently discuss such issues and how they played out again and again in World History.

How mean-spirited to release his personnel file. This is unconscionable, even more so than the teacher's 'dereliction of duties' in the classroom . I in no way support this teacher, in fact cannot believe that he is still teaching, with his painfully clear biases as reflected by the speaker incident, his WASPISH comments, and his lack of content in the classroom. But I do respect his right not to have this made public, and question the vindictive motives behind the file's release.

Seems awful strange to me that if this guy is such a terrible teacher, why was he teaching at a school which has been recognized as one of the best in the country? If he's as bad as they're making it seem, he shouldn't have been teaching in Wake County at all. Hmmm.....more here than meets the eye.

Does anyone know if the principal who approved this speaker or the other teachers who let him speak received reprimands? Did the other teachers stop him as Del Burns seems to think Escamilla should have?