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Originally Posted by Flames in 07
Your performance doesn't mean as much as your seniority, and awful teachers don't give way to good ones. Under this culture it must be near impossible to teach kids the exact opposite of what their unions are about.
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I cannot agree more.
I am a young, new teacher at 26...I have terrific performance reviews, great relationships with the students and staff, however, being brand new without a continuous contract, I am out of work June 30th because of lack of funding. My summer is going to be full of uncertainty and searching for a new job.
What is most frustrating about this, is you see the teachers with that sexy continuous (tenured) contract who is chronically bad, and they have a job.
In the teaching world, there are teachers who are close minded and stubborn in their ways "I've taught like this for 35 years, and i'm not going to change regardless of the new policies introduced". These are the teachers anti-inclusion, anti-technology and anti-change....They aren't so much "teaching" as they are photocopier extrodinaires and distributors of worksheets.