Hi Debbie - I understand your frustration, but have kind of a different take
(I also have an administrative degree and my husband is a principal.)
Actually, THIS PERSON is not protected! His/her right to have due process
and a chance to improve performance/remediate problems is what is protected.
The union makes sure that due process is followed and that a teacher has a
right to know what he/she are doing wrong and have a chance to fix that.
That's not unreasonable, and I'm sure you'd agree to that, as well. The
person you are speaking of could relatively easily be gotten rid of by an
administrator who is doing his/her job. All that would have to be done is
to follow the rules and policies, document everything, tell the teacher
what's wrong and that it must be improved, and follow through. So my take
is: Don't be frustrated with the union for protecting people's rights to be
treated fairly. Be frustrated with whatever administrator is not doing
his/her job!! That's what they get the big bucks for. Bev
I admit, I am in somewhat of a bubble because I have, so far, had very good,
reasonable and rational principals. I do realize that the union is there for
the dedicated teachers, too. I, in the future, could be someone who might
need the union because I am one of those teachers who doesn't play by ALL
the rules, if the rules don't help my students. So, I retract my statement
about the union MOSTLY protecting the slackers. However, what I DO see, is
that they DO protect slackers. I know that from what I see at my school. I
have often thought that what (some) teachers do borders on criminal, taking
close to 90 thousand dollars a year from the system, coming to work and
doing NOTHING all day that resembles teaching, and then leaving with the
students at the end of the day. Why and how does this happen? In any other
business, this person would be gone. Why is this person protected???
Debbie
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