> I think you are are referring to the school reform movement (as seeking to convert teachers from artisans/professionals to assembly-line workers), but to be fair, isn't it more accurate to say that the public school unions see the teachers as interchangeable assembly-line workers? ?I mean, isn't that the heart of the issue behind the current ACLU led lawsuit against California, which directly attacked the union defended policy of seniority protection during layoffs? ?Is there any other basis to defend seniority protection other than teachers are interchangeable assembly line workers?
I think more than in most lines of work, teaching involves a great deal of learning by doing. Thus a teacher (who has already qualified by earning tenure -- let's not forget that these are relatively rigorous procedures) either gets better with experience or starts to "lose it." IF they lose it, it's the responsibility of the administration to weed out the dead wood. Please don't assert unions protect all the dead wood --- there is no evidence that non-unionized teachers groups are any better than unionized groups (cross state/region/etc. comparisons). Seniority is a useful proxy for improvement as a result of learning by doing ...
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