It is not true that teachers cannot be fired; unions simply ensure that they have a right to due process.
There is NO evidence that charter schools get better results than public schools. It is also true that charter schools quietly toss students who are lowering the school's stats out the back door, back to public school.
Teachers have to undergo rigorous tests in order to qualify in their specialty, Mr. Know-it-all. Those tests are rather challenging. I borrowed a friend's Kaplan prep books for the Medcats and found them to be well-attuned to the level of the teacher specialty exams I had to take for my field. Out of a possible 300, I scored 285. Soooo dumb. Easy to dish it out, eh moron?
As a matter of fact, Pharmie-la, teachers have fought hard over the years for things that would help their students learn. We, after all, are the people in the classroom with the kids. We know them. We care about them. We know their life stories. We know what kinds of lessons they enjoy, and what kinds of lessons would probably turn them off. Not the politicians looking for some cheap political points. Not the zillionaires looking to keep the training of the next generation within the hands of a very few, so that they will have the future of the nation in their liberal and uninformed hands. And certainly not people living in their mother's basement surrounded by used candy wrappers (and worse) like you.
The next time Mom lets you use the computer, you should make sure of your facts before you pop off at people who know more about their subject than you do. You are SO pathetically dumb and rude.
But the pension plans for all your followers are doing well, I understand.
Now you can go back to moveon.org and DU where others of your stripe appreciate you...we do not, you obnoxious, over the hill jackal who has stolen the future from so many children.
And I mean that in a good way. You can have the last word.
Bullsh!t!
Tenure ensures that they can't be fired unless it's for murder or rape, and not necessarily for the latter.
That's also a bunch of crap. In Buffalo NY every few years, the city's teachers are given a high school proficiency exam and most of them cannot even pass what is required of the students to graduate from high school.
And the response is what?
Cries of *racism*. No denying that it's wrong results. No, the test administrators are racists.
Right.....
You are SO pathetically dumb and rude.
After your obnoxious, and yes, rude and dumb post, you have the nerve to call HIM rude and dumb? That's the pot calling the kettle black.