Well, I used to be a teacher. For anyone who doubts that unions reward seniority, all you have to do is look how teachers are paid.
It is a scale for years worked, period. Every year you work, you get another raise, if that is in your current contract. And you try and talk to the teacher's union about letting their teachers pay be related to the quality of teaching in the classroom. They say the teachers are already evaluated by the principles of the school and that should be sufficient. They wont hear of teachers being evaluated by an outside body.
Not only that, the union as well as many teachers, believe that there is no need for Grade 12 diploma exams, that it should purely be on the recommendation of the teachers involved. Tell me, how will our education equate worldwide if we do not meet standards?
And it is almost next to impossible to get rid of a bad teacher, unless they do something horrendous like sexually exploit someone in their teaching care. The bad teachers simply get shuffled around from one school to another until they retire.
And teachers only get their teaching certificate from the union, not from Alberta Education. So teachers can not be fired unless the union takes that teaching certificate back from the teacher. Iin essence, the School Board can not actually fire the teacher, they have to discuss and recommend to the union.
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