Posted on 03/13/2015 11:21:56 AM PDT by Behind Liberal Lines
A lawsuit by parents who claim that tenure statutes undermine constitutional guarantees of an adequate public education has survived a motion to dismiss.
Staten Island Supreme Court Justice Philip Minardo determined that Davids v. State of New York, 101105/14, meets "minimal" standards for going forward at an early stage of the litigation and that the plantiffs—11 parents and two children—have standing.
The judge said plaintiffs have shown that they may be entitled to relief "under any reasonable view of the facts stated." He also said that children named among the plaintiffs are "clearly" within the zone of a protected interest that they are seeking to assert.
Two unions who are among the defendants, the United Federation of Teachers and the New York State United Teachers, said they would appeal.
The plaintiffs allege that the teacher tenure system, which provides strong job protections for teachers who reach tenure, usually after a three-year probationary period, allows too many ineffective or incompetent teachers to stay in the classroom for too long.
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How about we abolish people posting from a position of ignorance first? Tenure only ensures due process rights, not a bulletproof position. It protects teachers against administrators who don't like their religion (I experienced that personally), who don't like their politics, who don't like them for any number of reasons which have nothing to do with the quality of their teaching.
Having worked in government myself and having seen how hard it is to fire government employees I would respectfully submit that your position, while laudable, has been perverted to the point were due process has become practically ‘guilt beyond a reasonable doubt.’
Teachers unions do nothing but drive up taxes and protect worthless lazy slobs that couldn’t make it in the real world.
Few enter college with the intent of becoming a teacher, they switch to a teaching major as a last resort, just before they flunk out.
Scrape out the SAT/ACT barrel, and what sticks to the bottom become public school teachers.
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this is being done incorrectly...
if you can’t beat ‘em, join ‘em..
here we go...
most tenured teachers are white...
white teachers are automatically racist...
therefore, tenure laws are racist...
THAT may work
You are so mentally lazy that you don’t even want to correct your ignorance. Most of the teachers that I know are very bright individuals. Many have advanced degrees in law and other fields. They found that they liked teaching kids better. I would hardly consider myself or my colleagues “worthless lazy slobs”. Don’t throw stones from glass houses. And cut out your stupid inaccurate insults. You just make yourself look stupid.
Tenure has ensured marginal public education; what other occupation offers such protection? It protects mediocrity, and that is the outcome as well.
Interesting that it is being used to show it is being used to deny blacks an equal education; apparently it is OK to pretend to educate white children...
Get rid of unions and the teaching profession might start getting some respect.
Unions operate on the theory that all are equal within a classification. Meet the laughably low minimum standard and you are equal to the best the group has to offer.
Well, even the teachers themselves will admit there are some worthless incompetent slugs within the group.
Yet they whine like a 2 year old when you treat them all the same, just like the union demands. By protecting the lazy slugs all teachers in the union are reduced to that same level.
Good teachers don’t need tenure, or a union. If they want to be judged on individual merit they have to dump the union. Until that happens they are all the turd in the punch bowl.
Well put; apparently they feel entitled to benefits normally reserved for Supreme Court justices and popes...
Here in NJ public school teachers are our new upper middle class (since real jobs left) - working part-time 180 days per year...
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