Posted on 06/19/2009 4:49:46 AM PDT by freespirited
D.C. Schools Chancellor Michelle A. Rhee, following through on promises to dismiss teachers deemed ineffective, has fired about 250 tenured and novice instructors this week for poor performance or failure to obtain a license, union officials said yesterday....
The dismissal of 80 tenured teachers is a landmark of sorts for the school system, which historically has fired only a handful of instructors each year for poor performance. ...
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She wasn’t joking, was she.
Just 250? From that rat hole school system?
What she found in the school system is endemic to the DC govt. Too bad she isnt mayor.
It’s a start!
NEA will be all over this...... but way to go. More of this needs to be done. I’m a teacher & I wholeheartedly believe tenure should be done away with this and merit pay should be implemented. But no can’t do that thanks to Jimmuh Cartah’s policies he started!!!
I had an idea -
if a parent or guardian were required to serve detention with their unruly student....
I don’t know the whole story, but I hope it’s not political and is truly a legitimate performance issue.
Good for her.
I wonder how many the union will successfully have reinstated.
“I don’t know the whole story, but I hope it’s not political and is truly a legitimate performance issue.”
I don’t know the story either, but the way things are going the fired ones might be Republicans or, worse yet, Conservatives!
It took decades and how many lost generations to find one person with this much integrity? She will be challenged in court and they will seek to remoive her for this.
We should send her e-mails of encouragement because we know she’s going to get flamed.
And their replacements will be arriving from Chicago.....any day now.
“... hired permanently.”
Frightening! Like Supreme Court Justices????
Poison the well, so to speak, with permanently placed, mediocre, Liberal instructors (misdirecting the education of generation after generation of voters) and fill the Supreme Court with America-Hating, communists...
Why not just dismantle the whole apparatus of the country at once?
Probably all minorities now with compelling personal histories. Look like great potential upper level NEA material.
I’m sure that there are 250 or more incompetent teachers in DC, the big question is whether these are the ones.
It just seems far too easy for bureaucrats to use this kind of move to get rid of people they don’t like because of political, personal or other reasons.
I'd wonder, too. I can see "failure to obtain a license" would seem a legitimate reason, but I lived in suburban Maryland years ago and just getting a driver's license or registering a car in DC was a major problem.
In any case, I think trying to reform the DC public schools by firing a few hundred teachers is like trying to dry out the ocean using paper towels.
“With graduation rates of somewhere near 50% the union must be proud of their work.”
That is double the Detoilet grad rate!
Good point ... this is a likely problem in a lot of places, but probably not in this particular hellhole. Wouldnt surprise me if there is not a single Republican or conservative to fire in the D.C. public schools.
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