Something went amiss in this round of layoffs, however, and there are two possible explanations. Either Rhee overplayed her hand badly, or she and the mayor provoked a confrontation in hopes that it would weaken the union at a sensitive time in contract negotiations.
The underlying issues, as always, are employee seniority and tenure. It's critical that Rhee be able to push out bad teachers, regardless of years of service. That's pretty widely accepted. When she dismissed about 80 tenured teachers for poor performance in June, after giving them 90 days' notice and a chance to improve, there was barely any public protest.
The problem with this argument about "poor" teachers is the fact any fucking administrator can call a teacher "poor," and they are shitcanned thanks to this ridiculous hearing system public schools have.
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