SweetSue92
Diamond Member
I would like to see good teachers paid more and bad teachers protected less.
I guess that makes me half liberal and half conservative.
Bad teachers are protected less than you realize. You just don't hear about it because schools are not allowed to release information about teachers getting fired or removed from the classroom without opening themselves up to be sued. The sources the media gets are always unofficial, meaning that talked to someone who know but didn't want to get fired!
Like most workplaces, there is a grapevine at mine. But I am here to tell you that I have seen teachers "disappeared" in a day and no one knows exactly what happened. There was a meeting with closed blinds; they were walked to their desk to gather their things; no one knows exactly what happened. The entire thing is locked down.
It's uncanny, but I am thinking of at least three different occasions where this has happened, in multiple schools in my district.