tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-14648942.post8746040720925221906..comments2024-01-08T05:15:14.232-08:00Comments on Buckhorn Road: Beware the Ides of MarchW.R. Chandlerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05908482384887766964noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-14648942.post-26859205780385784692009-02-04T08:14:00.000-08:002009-02-04T08:14:00.000-08:00I guess that depends on what you mean by "cause."O...I guess that depends on what you mean by "cause."<BR/><BR/>Once a teacher in the U.S. obtains tenure (usually after two probationary years), it is extremely difficult to get rid of that teacher for incompetence or even after committing most kinds of crimes. It is possible, but the time and cost is usually so prohibitive, school districts either shuffle these lemons around to other schools, or the teacher's principal gives the teacher such a crappy teaching schedule that the teacher wants to leave.<BR/><BR/>In New York City, teachers who should be nowhere near a classroom spend their days in an administrative building - dubbed the "rubber room" - where they sit all day reading a book or whatever, yet they still get paid. It is cheaper for NYC to do this than pay the costs of trying to fire the teacher.<BR/><BR/>About the only legitimate way that teachers can be let go without cause is in the situation I described with the budget cuts. However, the teachers who are released are not released based on their job performance, they are released based on their seniority (or lack thereof).<BR/><BR/>I hope this clears it up for you.W.R. Chandlerhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05908482384887766964noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-14648942.post-90151151990443311332009-02-04T07:50:00.000-08:002009-02-04T07:50:00.000-08:00On reading other blogs, I get the idea that the pr...On reading other blogs, I get the idea that the problem in US schools is too much job security.. The idea of a teacher being fired without cause in the UK simply could not happen. Could you explain why it happens in the US?Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com