Would we expect anything else as Winston-Salem Forsyth County Schools ponder layoffs that —let’s be honest —probably won’t happen.

Someone tell me if you see something wrong there:

The latest revision of a proposed layoff policy for Winston-Salem/Forsyth County Schools employees would include points for experience and positive evaluations, making it, for local teachers, a big step in the right direction, officials said.

The previous proposal relied on a hierarchy of factors that included elements that teachers said weren’t always within their control, such as students’ academic improvement.

Meanwhile —down in Guilford County —– a change in ‘teacher culture’ will be required as GCS tries to scale down new school construction:

One thing that has been done well at Northern and Eastern high schools is attempting to move the schools to a college-model teaching plan, where teachers do not own the classroom they teach in. Instead, they rotate in and out of classrooms, spending empty periods in a teacher workroom.

…Gary Paul Kane, a housing consultant with the Community Foundation of Greater Greensboro, said teachers are programmed by habit and tradition to expect to be able to occupy the same classroom all day. He said, “You’ve got to change the culture, and the culture will change slowly.”

Just happened to catch a rerun of Tuesday’s school board meeting and watch with interest as the board considering applying for —-you guessed it —- federal bonds for construction projects already on voter-approved bonds. Switching to the federal bonds would save taxpayers money due to lower financing rates, but board member Nancy Routh pointed out that the savings wold only be “imaginary money.”