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7.5 million $ blunder

Steve

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we all remember these headlines..

DC Schools to Fire Hundreds of Teachers
Poor performance, No Child Left Behind lead to 241 dismissals

Chancellor Michelle Rhee says 241 teachers are being fired for poor performance, the Washington Post reports. Another 737 were rated “minimally effective,” meaning they have a year to shape up or they’re gone, too.The dismissals are part of a national movement, fostered by the Obama administration’s “Race to the Top” grants, to more rigorously assess teacher effectiveness.

but it appears keeping good teachers and canning the poor performing teachers isn't in their contract.. my only question is... what about the children who will suffer a substandard education.. (after all it is about children and education)

Ruling: Fired D.C. teachers must be offered jobs, back wages

The first 75 teachers who former Chancellor Michelle Rhee fired must be given about $7.5 million in back wages and offered positions with D.C. Public Schools, an arbitrator ruled.

The courtsordered D.C. Public Schools to make a 60-day "good faith effort" to locate the 75 teachers, offer them reinstatement and make up two years of paychecks. Saunders estimated that with an average annual salary of $50,000, each teacher would cash in on $100,000 -- costing the government-run school system $7.5 million while the city faces a $545 million deficit in fiscal 2012.

"The arbitrator's opinion did not call into question the reasons why the teachers were separated, only the process," Simmons said. "During their probationary period, the separated teachers did not exhibit the ability to be successful teachers at DCPS."
 

TSR

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As I have said numerous times public education can't solve all of society's problems. In TN. a teacher's probationary period is 4 yrs. If an administration can't determine whether a teacher should gain tenure after this period, then perhaps we should look at the administration. Also, during this 4 yr probationary period a teacher can be fired no questions asked , afterwards a teacher (with tenure) can be fired but is afforded due process.
 

Steve

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As I have said numerous times public education can't solve all of society's problems.

Who is asking them to do so? nothing in what i posted said they were expected to solve the worlds problems, they were just asked to do the job they were hired for, teach

and it seems asking some to teach is to much of an imposition..



It seems that in DC the courts decide who doesn't get fired.. no matter how bad they are..

maybe some of the animosity towards public education wouldn't be so bad if we didn't feel as if we (taxpayers) weren't supporting a bunch of failures.

why in any career should a piss poor employee be protected?

how many stories will we have to hear about teachers who are awful at their jobs, yet still manage to keep them. how many must we must we endure before we are totally fed up with public education and it's failure to be able to deal with pathetic teachers??

personally it disgust me that children must face these teachers and still somehow learn, and succeed despite them..

I already have my education, I have already dealt with several bad teachers/professors, and thankfully the good ones well outweighed the bad ones..

but why should we tolerate even one bad one?

this issue isn't about great teachers, or even good teachers,

it isn't about the societal crap the good teachers must deal with.. (BTW, we didn't want the problem children and their whiny parents to burden the system either, but the courts decided otherwise)..

it is about the rotten bad teachers,.. and why anyone would tolerate them?

and until the teachers in public education figure this out, I and many others will support private schools, charter schools and school choice and vouchers..

after all it is about the children..
 
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