I Didn't Bother Watching the Public Education Hit Job on 60 Minutes

The program over the years has trashed public education; I especially remember Lesley Stahl's smears of public ed.

Of course this piece had as its underlying message "tenure," which has been deliberately distorted to mean teachers have it "made" by the third year. As yours truly can attest from experience, that is bullshit, and you don't have to be a "bad" teacher to get fired. It's very, very easy for school districts to do. "Tenure" actually protects school districts from more wrongful termination lawsuits by putting the brakes on idiotic principals' worst impulses. Of course, the idiots can do it anyway, as school districts routinely flout the law to protect these assholes.

No person in his or her right mind, a potential "superteacher" or not, is going to waste tens of thousands of dollars being trained for a high-stress, low-paid job where he or she can be tossed out before he or she ever gets vesting in retirement.