The teacher’s union got HAMMERED in California...
There are snowball fights in hell right now.
I’ll point this out because few people ever consider the consequences of this stuff. Let’s say one single district finally disposes of four-hundred poorly performing teachers. Where exactly do you think they will be hired onto next? Bachelors degree....owing $60,000 in student loans, and regarded as a marginal teacher? What industry would suddenly open up some doors to hire someone with an education degree but lousy comments on their ability to teach?
I think this is a massive problem that we are creating, but necessary for the kids. It’s just that I can’t think of any industry willing to take 40,000 teachers from across the nation and give them a job because they are so lousy at what they do.
“The ruling should help boost California public school students’ access to a decent education. This “tentative decision” (the court’s words), based on the California Constitution, will likely be appealed. While assessing the quality of education is normally a policy matter best left to the legislature, unless you’re a lousy teacher, this should be a cause for celebration..............Let’s hope so “
It was interesting to watch the local tv news channels in the Gay Frisco area. Many black principals and higher were agreeing with the court decision.
This is not about getting rid of incompetent teachers, no matter what they claim.
Maybe it’s about putting a scare into teachers....to make sure they all toe the CommieCare line without complaint...
Big Deal. The terrible students are still there.
The consequence I don’t want to see is where teachers spend even more time just prepping students for a test rather than teaching them grade level information and skills. I don’t know what other options there are for evaluating the teacher than standardized testing.
I prefer the homeschool model anyway.
This is a smoke screen. This is about the teacher’s pension fund which has a 7 billion dollar shortfall. Right now, a purge is going on to get rid of any teacher near retirement age in the LA school district. They are going through records going back 20 years to find any justification to let career teachers go. With this court decision, you’ll now hear stories of wholesale firing of teachers over 50 with no justification needed. Good teachers with 30 to 40 years of experience are being thrown on the street with no pension to show for their years of sacrifice.