They don't have any real input at all, regardless of school district.
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Yep, termination meetings are interesting, but I am surprised anybody would be surprised these are taped. Hell, my sham arbitration hearing was taped; however, I was not allowed to tape the "investigatory hearing." What a goddamned joke. If these people didn't have anything to hide, they wouldn't mind being taped.
What IS unusual is that a media person was allowed in. Usually these meetings are closed to the public. That's why there is so much abuse and false termination of teachers--there is no accountability.
You hear an awful lot about how hard it is to terminate a tenured teacher and how much it costs. You only get the horror stories from the perspective of the anti-tenure crowd. What is often neglected is the issue of why a school system would choose to take a route to terminate in spite of the costs. The David Pakter case is a prime exhibit. I dropped in on David's 3020a hearing yesterday. You could write a book.
The reason they do is because they have unlimited funds to dispose of a teacher, just as they did with me. Never mind they knew in my case they had no case and knew they were caught when they realized I wasn't faking any illness at all, and hiring the lawyers and arbitrator would cost tens of thousands of dollars; it was taxpayer money, there is no bottom line to worry about, unlike business, so why NOT get rid of a "troublesome" teacher?
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