California
Teacher Unions and Recent Legal Ruling
A California court decided to change the way
teachers are dismissed in three areas:
1. Ending
of the process of laying off teachers that relies only on seniority,
2. Taking
away extra job safeguards that are not available to other school and state
employees, and
3. Eliminating
the tenure process as it now exists; this process starts at 18 months when
teachers are either terminated or become tenured with strong job security.
The present system has been in place with the
passage of state laws and the negotiation of union contracts. For reasons that only this particular judge
can explain, he has changed the process used in California schools. It sounds like there has already been a
procedure in place to eliminate of sub-standard teachers. It may be a complicated and long process but
that can be a good thing. There are
times when teachers need protection from over-zealous administrators who want
to do away with teachers who do not agree with them in any number of areas. If you have ever faced down administrators,
as I have as a high school teacher, you know that it is good to have help in
your corner. Taking away rights is not
the way to a better education system in this country.
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