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Originally Posted by chemgear
Are you saying that we cannot stop bad employees from staying in the school board system? Hands tied, nothing that you can do? (Because I agree).
I don't know, how about like any other company or organization where:
- Hey, you suck at your job and you're not improving. Thank you, goodbye.
- You are abusing your sick days/benefits. Thank you, goodbye.
- You clearly don't care anymore and are just barely even showing up every day. Goodbye.
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I do admit that there are problems with getting rid of bad teachers, because they have protection, but I am just thinking about this from a practical perspective.
How do people who are bad employees still have jobs? Shouldn't every one of them be unemployed? Do these people wander the world moving from one job to another every 3 months when they get canned?
The reality of the situation is not everyone can be an above average employee, or even just average, some of them are going to flat out suck and they can be kept in a job because it is harder/more expensive for management to fire and replace them than it is to keep them on the job.
My point is, you can't expect much deviation from this pattern from any field, so accepting that some teachers are bad at their jobs is really just a fact of life. This is just personal experience, but in the 12 combined years that all my kids have been in school, ranging from K to Grade 12, there has only been one teacher who I would have considered as bad enough that he should lose his job. Maybe that's an acceptable ratio?