The Education Wars: More Teacher-Trashing Twaddle

from the New York Times, which appears to be completely in bed with BloomKlein.

Here is what I wrote on a discussion board when somebody wrote his tale of woe about a "terrible" teacher who he claimed was almost impossible to get rid of:

It is fucking laughably easy, and districts will commit every act short of murder to get rid of a teacher it doesn't want.

I've been there. I have been fired--illegally. Don't hand me any goddamned shit it is "hard" or that a teacher deserves it. You haven't been there. I have. A teacher faces a complete stacked deck in these "due process" hearings: No witnesses allowed, perjury, subornation of perjury, falsification of documents, bribery, the whole ball of wax. And the union and its lawyers cut deals with the district to make sure a principal keeps his or her job at the expense of the teacher. This despite the fact a teacher will spend hundreds of dollars a year in union dues. That was what happened in my case.

I have NO career anymore because of what a negligent piece of shit of a principal did to me because she was pressured. See, when you're fired, you can NEVER teach again anywhere in the United States. It is serious business to fire a teacher--it is NOT like private sector work where your livelihood isn't destroyed forever. Meanwhile, this dirtbag of a principal gets to go on fancy vacations scuba diving in Hawaii and bragging about it on Facebook. This person pulls down over 100K a year in salary and benefits even though she has NO business whatsoever running a school. Not to mention she has utterly NO conscience whatsoever over what she did to me and committed perjury at my hearing--four times.

The ONLY reason firing was uncommon in the "old days" was because principals back then had ETHICS and understood that firing teachers willy-nilly would undermine staff morale and destroy kids' rights to a stable educational environment.

Principals now don't give a shit because they KNOW the district--with help from the taxpayers--will support them throughout the due process hearing garbage clear up to the Court of Appeals. Principals, unlike supervisors anywhere else in the economy, have TOTAL power over teachers and there is NO real oversight over their actions.

Education is NOT a fucking business and teachers should NOT be treated like shit. I wish people around here would get a clue and quit repeating lies from the privatizers.

Just because firing teachers in the "old days" was uncommon doesn't mean it was impossible to get rid of them. It's just the fact principals were much different then than they are now. Nowadays they don't know their asses from holes in the ground how to deal with subordinates.