Overpaid schoolteachers are fired for refusing to work an additional half hour a day. Too bad they can’t be fired for incompetence.
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Overpaid schoolteachers are fired for refusing to work an additional half hour a day. Too bad they can’t be fired for incompetence.
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In my experience, it is much easier to sack someone for refusing a reasonable request then to sack them for incompetence but really almost everyone sacked for such reasons are because of incompetence or personalities as you rarely get rid of good staff for trivial reasons.
Too bad for the teachers as well. It’s precisely the inability to fire folks for incompetence that causes some employers to make work so onerous within the union contract (by imposing lots of little burdens) to cause employees to quit of their own accord or refuse to comply (a firing offense). Non-union employees with an in-demand skill (like teaching ought to be) don’t have to put up with that for the most part, as employers are competing for their work with pleasant, no-hassle work environments.
I suspect that most of the teachers would have taken Superintendent Gallo’s offer if they’d been allowed to. A job that pays $70,000 a year in a town where the median income is $22,000 isn’t something that most people would just throw away. Trust the union officials — who still have their own jobs! — to screw things up.
From reading the comments on several of these news items, it seems that lack of discipline was one of the things dragging the school into the pits. The schools should be allowed to expell the kids who don’t want to learn and who disrupt the educations of those who do (apparently about 50 percent of them). Vouchers to private schools might be one answer; dropping the requirement that losers who are determined to not get an education must stay in school anyway might be another.