Given the Fact School Principals are the Least Capable People

in the system, the notion of "merit pay" and firing teachers after "unsatisfactory" evals is a total absurdity, put through by people who haven't a goddamned clue about education but prefer to gut pay and benefits for public employees in general.

Teacher contracts typically aren't worth the paper they are written on, but this Florida legislation makes the scam apparent to all:

The measure is of a piece with similar legislation around the US, placing the burden of the economic crisis on the backs of working people, and targeting public sector workers in particular as allegedly overcompensated and unaccountable. The proposed bill eliminates tenure for new hires and allows school districts to take back tenure even from teachers who are grandfathered in from the old system if they have two years of inadequate performance, or, for that matter, if they move to another county within the state!

The goal, of course, is to ditch public education altogether in Florida.

Where are the massive protests there, by the way?