The Education Wars: 20/20 "Vision"

Here we get another inflammatory article about how it is these lazy, veteran teachers need to go in budgetary times and keep these young, "innovative" teachers on the payroll.

There is a reason for "senority rules," especially in public education. It's to protect those who are older, more experienced, who however may not be the preference of the idiot principals. Besides, if these principals hired these "ineffective" teachers in the first place, how they can be entrusted with laying them off?

What abolishing seniority rules is about is age discrimination and saving a few bucks by hiring or keeping on the "20/20" or "two-fer" teachers: twenty-somethings at 20K a year (or a little bit higher given inflation), or two cheapo bimbos for the price of one experienced, older teacher.