And in NY the only way to get in is to know someone. What a scam. On Thu, Aug 12, 2010 at 4:15 PM, Scott Stroz <[email protected]> wrote: > > I have family and friends in NJ who are teachers and got laid off, so > I understand that side of the issue. > > For each of these people I know, who got laid off was based on > seniority. If you were there longer, regardless of how good of a > teacher you are, you stayed. If you were a newer teacher, you got laid > off. I am not saying that all the teachers that kept their jobs is a > bad teacher, but using 'seniority' as a metric for firing someone is > just plain stupid. > > Rather than try to cut wasteful spending like over paid, tenured > teachers who are piss poor teachers, or try to find more efficient > ways to spend money, these Boards of education chose the easy way out > (Not sure if it the same in OR - I am speaking from what I know from > my peeps in NJ). > > Its harder to get rid of a tenured teacher, regardless of how poor > they perform in their job than it is to get rid of herpes. That is > ridiculous. And who do I blame? The teacher's unions. >
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