Firing Teachers While at the Same Time Hiring New Teachers

This seems to be the latest scam going on with public school districts. It's a veiled policy of age discrimination to fire senior, veteran teachers who are more expensive and then replace them with newbies with little or no experience at all but are cheap. Then, when those newbies get a couple of years in, THEY will be replaced with still cheaper hires.

Chicago is pulling the Michelle Rhee crap of firing tenured teachers while hiring newbies:

While claiming it must cut hundreds (perhaps thousands) of jobs, the Chicago Board of Education is simultaneously advertising around the nation and locally to hire new teachers. Is there an explanation? Secret Job Fairs and hundreds of hidden job positions posted on out-of-state Web sites — plus some postings from CPS itself — indicate confusion, if not a policy of dishonesty. Additionally, a federal age discrimination lawsuit is already pending that could cost CPS millions of dollars if the pattern that seems to be there is verified in court. The charge is that CPS is dumping veteran teachers (an instance of age discrimination) while trying to hire young teachers in large numbers — despite their lack of experience and proven abilities, and the fact that a majority of the newly hired teachers leave the profession within five years.