Hundreds of Cleveland teachers, principals to lose jobs (800 total including 545 teachers)

cleveland.com ^ | April 20, 2010 | Thomas Ott

[Las Vegas Dave]

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[who knows what evil?]

Some good news to start the day...now perhaps these folks can seek out an honest and productive profession.

[unspun]

Good luck.

[Las Vegas Dave]

Thanks for you comment.

I suggest “retail sales” at Macy’s, or “landscape specialist and snow removal”, for the soon to be laid off teachers.

[gusopol3]

Stimulus money has run short?

[boxerblues]

There’s something wrong when a state law forces removal of teachers without regard to their effectiveness in the classroom,”

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They can send a big thank You to their Union leadership for that gem

[Happy Rain]

Yep,the first to go,like cops and firemen,are the teachers—while over-employed useless lard-ass pencil-pushing “administrators” and “middle-management” types who pull down the big money have political protection.

Nobody would agree to tax increases if they dumped this dead weight instead of those who actually work.

[EdReform]

During that time, teachers stood and loudly sang "We Shall Not be Moved" and other songs.

"Mmmm, mmm, mmm. Barack Hussein Obama"?

[101voodoo]

Te teachers have no one but their own union to blame for this. The greed and demands for a never ending, always growing public funded gravy train, were the planted seeds leading to the derailing of that train.

Similar things are happening in NJ where I live and I haven’t an ounce of sympathy for any of them.

[who knows what evil?]

They just taxes AGAIN in my neck of the woods to “help out the schools”. I’m sure all those teachers with the purple shirts were hurting for money...

[Recon Dad]

Simple inventory control, instead of the LIFO method use the FIFO method.

Then again I bet I could come up with a really neat formula based on seniority and the graduation rate that would really piss off the union.

[FrankR]

Well, I hate to see anyone lose their jobs, but there are a lot of people in that "club" right now.

It appears that the "wonderful" unions are not the end all, be all they are purported to be.

I went to work for the phone company way back in 1968, and at the young, tender age of 23 even I saw the only ones making out in union situations, were the union bosses.

I also noted that over everything else, unions create and promote mediocrity. Your hard work, your ingenuity, your creativity, and yes...even your skills, won't get you diddley-squat. The only thing that works is seniority. You may have co-workers that are lazy, untalented, and have bad attitudes...but if they have been there longer than you, they make more money...and it takes a major uprising to fire one of them...the company is stuck with some real dregs they can't boot out the door.

Everything between you and your supervisor has to go through the union, from salaries, to benefits to bonuses. You become merely a "bargaining chip", providing your body count to a list that the union uses to extort more money from the company. You belong to the union, you work for the union, they only contract you to the company.

[riri]

Good. Half of them probably have zero business in the teaching profession anyway.

We have a similar "problem" facing Arizona. They have all the nitwit parents running around with Yes to 100 stickers, facebook icons, yard signs, bumper stickers, etc.

Yet another reason, I'd gladly give up my vote to see women not voting. Sorry to the women out there with brains, all ten percent of us.

[Wpin]

Thank you, it is always nice to get some good news in the morning and union members losing their jobs is always good news to me... :)

[rrrod]

this can only improve public eduction...

[csmusaret]

In the Charlotte Mecklenburg school district the plan is to eliminate 1,000 positions. I don’t know the exact number, but most of them will be teachers. This is Mecklenburg County, North Carolina which includes the city of Charlotte.

[Wpin]

“Yep,the first to go,like cops and firemen,are the teachers—while over-employed useless lard-ass pencil-pushing “administrators” and “middle-management” types who pull down the big money have political protection.

Nobody would agree to tax increases if they dumped this dead weight instead of those who actually work.’

Sounds a bit Marxist if you ask me...

[EBH]

The union comments to explore every option are ridiculous. If anything the Cleveland School Board has explored every option to the detriment of the children. From new multiple new superintendents of schools to changing management, at some point in comes down to the folks on the frontline of education. These teachers have only their union attitudes to blame and these cuts by seniority will only hurt the children. When unions protect the unproductive then everyone loses. The board didn't go far enough as far as I am concerned...they needed to layoff/fire the union.

[dljordan]

“this can only improve public “eduction”...

:)