Local middle school had an 86 year old teacher who’d been teaching for over 60 years. It was to the point where she would zone out in the middle of class, fall asleep, just stop talking in the middle of a lesson to sit down and rest, and the list goes on. She blamed it on the myriad medications she was taking. Parents started to complain, and the PTA meetings were getting contentious with the staff defending her while the parents sat astonished that there was an 86 year old woman teaching their kids, and not doing a very good job at that.
Long story short, when confronted with it by the Super, the principal said that she was a valuable asset, and she would not be fired despite all of the allegations and having to have an occasional “minder” in the room with her.
She died over last summer after teaching for all that time, but she was never fired.
Crist vetoed a bill that would’ve made it easier to fire underperforming teachers. The libs don’t like this since it quashes the power of yet another union.
*spit*
I’ll be homeschooling my kids, thanks.