Bedbugs Have More Rights Than Teachers,

and they don't even have "tenure":

I've been a teacher for 26 years. I don't much agree with Mayor Bloomberg, and I'm not altogether sanguine over Cathie Black's prospects as chancellor. Truth be told, I've disagreed with UFT leadership from time to time as well. But you'd think we'd all find common ground somewhere.

For example, there are bedbugs -- we're against them. We ought to do all in our power to avoid them. Yet the Department of Education's policy toward bedbugs baffles the imagination; it will not provide lists of schools that have bedbugs. That's truly disturbing. And the rationale that schools have few beds, is plainly absurd. (If you aren't Lou Gehrig, does that mean you can't get Lou Gehrig's Disease?)

Right now the UFT and the DOE are fighting in court over whether they should release the names and scores of teachers who participated in a value-added experiment. The UFT says the scores are invalid and inaccurate, and the DOE seems to feel they're of vital importance.

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