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[evil muppet]

I think some people have crayons stuck in their nose and it killed their sense of humor.

[evil muppet]

perdidochas wrote: evil muppet wrote: depends on where you are at. Some schools it is easier, in some places it is virtually impossible. Especially the larger school districts. New York City school district is a classic example. If a teacher is completely incompetent they are just shuffled somewhere else.

It should be much much easier to get a teacher fired. There are just too many incompeteent ones.

In the current job market, we can't get rid of the incompetents. My wife is a principal trainee. She has sat in on many interviews. At least in our district, the number of qualified applicants is small. Her system can't replace all retiring/leaving teachers with semi-qualified ones, much less fully qualified teachers. If they got rid of incompetents, the problem would be that much worse. What we need to do instead, is make teaching a more attractive job. There is no way to weed out incompetence, if you don't have enough teachers in the unemployment pool.

No, what we need to do is get the government out of the education business and allow the market mechanisms for functions. The government sets the standards so I wonder why there isn't enough teachers.

[airo]

Teacher unions are pretty much worthless... they have no tools available to them that traditional unions have.