The Education Wars

Asshole principals in NYC defy union orders and orders to fill vacancies with overaged or excessed teachers because they want to hire cheapo bimbos instead.

Time to fire these bastards.

With the teachers’ contract up for renewal this fall, Mr. Klein said he would push for a limit on how long teachers could stay in the reserve pool before they could be laid off. But an arbitration board has rejected such a limit.

Michael Mulgrew, the president of the teachers’ union, the United Federation of Teachers, said that the Education Department had not made a great enough effort to place teachers and that Mr. Klein had unfairly maligned them, making it even harder for them to find jobs. And, Mr. Mulgrew said, principals are reluctant to take on their higher salaries.

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Several principals — who did not want their names published for fear of angering the administration or the teachers’ union — said they were circumventing the restrictions by offering new teachers jobs as long-term substitutes or hiring them as specialized teachers but placing them in regular classrooms. Some said they planned to eliminate open positions from their budgets rather than take on teachers they considered undesirable, and others said they were holding out in the hope that Mr. Klein would lift the restrictions.

I wouldn't want my name published either if I were defying orders. "Poor performing" schools is just another political excuse to get rid of more experienced teachers in favor of the bimbos.

This incident should illustrate to all the world what is going on in school districts throughout the country.