I didn’t read the entire article, but I hope it mentions teachers’ unions as another factor that keeps bad teachers on the job.
The state bill that died earlier this year would have required schools to inquire with past employers to see if applicants were previously found responsible for an act of child abuse or sexual misconduct with a pupil. Schools would have been required to disclose substantiated sexual misconduct findings directly to other schools.
The legislation would have also banned language preventing disclosure of child abuse or sexual misconduct with a child in union contracts, as well as termination or severance deals with employees.
Miller’s group, SESAME, helped write the bill. She calls “passing the trash” “deliberate child endangerment. … One predator can have as many as 73 victims in lifetime.”
The California Teachers Association, the American Civil Liberties Union and others opposed the bill, citing due process concerns for employees.
I think the biggest issue is the inherent incompetence of HR depts. Deliberate, too.
Before hiring someone there is always ALWAYS supposed to be some vetting. Not by hiring manager, HR!
An applicant sends in a resume — which is an applicant’s vision of their life (relative to job). A hiring manager reads that to see if there is a possible. And, a resume will never point out flaws.
HR should at least be obliged to go over social media posts to see if they are nutjobs before sending the hiring manager a list of potentials.
If HR does not do this? Of what value are they to any company?
I’ve seen awesome teachers let go fo having christian / conservative views and on the flip side I’ve seen teachers in the SAME schools REWARD teachers for sexual misconduct with students (pregancy’s, std’s, assaults and more) and those teachers got PROMOTED or Pay Raises ALL due to the UNIONS