If poor performance occurs often enough, why aren't you unemployed yet?!
Because they do not fire teachers for poor performance of the students. I'll bet you do not know one teacher you have worked with that was terminated for poor performance.
Well, since I just finished my first year teaching you would be correct. I don't know that many teachers. Here is my premise: Don't assume that all teachers are poor preformers, and that they whine about their salaries. I gave up a legal career to become a teacher, and took an enormous cut in pay. Why? Because, like many of you I felt there was a problem in the public school system. So, instead of coming onto some board and complaining about it, I decided to put my money where my mouth is, and am attempting to do something about it, one student at a time. Believe, me I didn't get into this profession for the money.
It happens every year. They used to get a lot of them in the first 3 years, before they got tenure.
New hires don't get tenure anymore in my state, but I know there were several teachers at my school who weren't offered contracts for next year.
I'll grant that it's much harder with people who have been in the system for years...
Because they do not fire teachers for poor performance of the students. I'll bet you do not know one teacher you have worked with that was terminated for poor performance.
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I met one last week. ( Really!) She was a teacher at one of the Challenger schools. A PRIVATE school.
This really happened.
Have you heard of No Child Left Behind? Obviously not. Teachers will lose their jobs if students do not improve every year, including those students that don't give a damn.