Aspiring or Out-of-Work Teachers

need to cross off Nevada for any kind of future there.  The legislature has gutted seniority protections, which means any teacher over 50 will be vulnerable to being fired, regardless of years served.

Age discrimination has always been rampant in education, but now we have it legalized in this and other states.

Younger teachers will never be able to make a career out of teaching in Nevada, as they will never be eligible to be vested in PERS, which is REALLY what these "reforms" are about.  Currently, WCSD has violated the spirit of the negotiated agreement with the phony association by making all new hires one-year-only positions, except for so-called "high need" areas.

At the same time, the idiots who really are the problem, principals, have absolute ironclad job security and cannot be fired.  Because our politicians haven't a clue about what really goes on in public schools, they have ignored the real problem.

Most principals need to be fired, not reassigned or promoted when they screw up. Instead, districts need to either put in a Norway-style model of principal hiring, whereby site teachers pick the principal and vote him or her to return or voted out at the end of the year, or else districts should put in a battery of psychological tests to make sure these cretins are fit for the job.  Right now there are few people who are really qualified to be principals; after all, those people who care about children and love teaching stay in teaching positions--if they can keep them at all.  Those who are burned out or are greedy or power hungry or hate kids go into the administrative field, as the good principals bailed out years ago when "reforms" took hold.

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