Back when schools seemed to function, many decades ago, I get the impression that the way things worked was:
1) The principal had hire/fire authority on the teachers.
2) The principal could be fired by the school board, the mayor, or whoever else was in charge.
Nothing will really change as long as the teachers have union protection, and are subject to affirmative-action quotas.
Nothing will really change as long as the teachers have union protection, and are subject to affirmative-action quotas.
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Unions are a bad deal for teachers. In Wisconsin, after it became a right to work state, many dropped the union.