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Originally Posted by peter12
I do think that stereotypes towards teachers are pretty silly. However, my main complaint is the complete lack of meritocracy in the public school system. Even academia has the tenure process and different ranks of professorships (is that even a word) available for profs who get good teacher rankings and who publish frequently.
Why can't bad teachers be weeded out and good teachers be rewarded? I agree that there are quite a few good teachers, but I think there are alot of mediocre/terrible teachers who get into it because it is an easy job to slack off at when you want to. I have no doubt that everyone hear who has a story of a friend or relative who is a teacher that works their butt off and gets nothing extra for it is absolutely on the money. Those teachers are overworked and don't get any extra hand-up, but I can tell from personal experience that for everyone of those teachers there is another slacker who gets paid the same and gets the same vacation time.
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Union, simple as that. The bad teachers get floated around from one school to another, unless they commit some gross misconduct like sexual exploitation of one of their students.
It is the union that takes away the teaching certificate of the individual teacher, not the province that gave the certificate to that teacher.