The LAST Thing Any Teachers "Union" or "Association" Needs

is a NON-TEACHER to be an "executive director." It doesn't matter if he headed the ACLU because teachers in Nevada (as in virtually every state in the union, though in most states it isn't as obvious) have utterly NO legal rights at all. Public education is a whole lot different than other entities; the law simply doesn't apply to school districts. Federal anti-discrimination laws don't apply, state laws don't apply, administrative laws don't apply. As long as nobody is truly overseeing the districts--school boards don't count--to make sure malfeasance against teachers is kept at a minimum, nothing is going to happen to improve teachers' lot.

The big problem is teachers have no "due process" rights; the states' administrative laws are frequently flouted by school districts, whose administrators will do anything to keep their cushy jobs, even committing what would normally be termed criminal acts to keep them at the teachers' expense. In Nevada, the "process" is a complete farce from beginning to end. Fabricate bogus charges against a teacher, then, when caught after realizing they have no case and their hatchet person completely screwed up, merely rig the "due process" hearing by bribing an "association" executive director with a make-work lifetime job working under the crook who initiates the "investigation" against the teacher by putting the principal up to doing his dirty work, make sure there are no witnesses for the teacher, character assassinate the teacher, suborn perjury and tamper with witnesses, commit perjury in the hearing, put in outdated documents to defraud the arbitrator, destroy documents that would help the teacher, collude with the association's law firm, and on it goes. No big deal because nobody ever gets caught committing these white-collar crimes.

Since Peck isn't a teacher, he hasn't a clue. Being a daddy doesn't qualify one to run a teachers' association.

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