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Here's another interesting little-discussed discrimination pattern: if you google "new teachers" or "older teachers" and "age discrimination" you'd be amazed how many people out there in these United States are well aware of age discrimination against new, older teachers in this country, or just older teachers.

According to all these forums I just read, district don't want to pay higher health insurance costs for older teachers, and I can you from all my experience in teaching, districts certainly don't want to spend the money to mentor new teachers.

i also think the union has a big role in this type of discrimination against older, new teachers because those kind of teachers often come from other careers, and have a very different work ethic than what the union wants a teacher to do, which is punch a clock. So, you have the union feeling very threatened by older, 2nd career teachers, as many on this particular forum, here on FR, already know.

It's too bad no one has yet sued a school district in a huge class action lawsuit. Maybe sue the district for a $1 (so the taxpayers don't have to pay, but sue the district administrators personally, for millions -- pursuant to the new ruling by the 11th Circuit Federal Court in Atlanta in the Bricoe vs, White case, from Collier County, FL, where a teacher won the right to hold personally liable a superintendent for civil damages when the teacher alleged the superinitendent had violated the teacher's right to free speech.

Isn't discrimination a form of violating one's right to free speech, too? Just wondering...