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October 31, 2005
PROP 74 - Teacher Tenure
Oh m'gosh, is this outrageous or what? Did you know that "Prop 74" will increase the time it takes a teacher to get TENURE! It goes from 2 years to 5 years. It gets worse, in this period the employee could actually be fired if they can't do their job.
Well, boo-hoo, I don't think any of them ought to have tenure! When did YOU get tenure on YOUR job? Perhaps miraculously, but I've survived 30 plus years in the work place without tenure.
If tenure was so wonderful why do California schools rank among the worst in the nation? Why are high school graduation rates at 70% for the last decade?
Many that do graduate can barely read and write. And this is sadly not uncommon for the 12 years of public education. Meanwhile, private schools have been turning out stellar students for less than half the per student cost of the public side. And for this bad performance, the California Teachers Union wants us to keep it status quo. Now that is outrageous and the CTA is operating strictly for what's in the best interest of their membership, not your students, not the future of California or the nation!
Posted by Post Scripts at October 31, 2005 10:04 AM
Comments
We should all just be thankful that teachers don't have the California Nurses Associate as their union. It seems that every time the CTA comes up with some crazy scheme to keep burnout miserable teachers teaching our students the CNA comes up with one better to keep the worst of the worst nurses employed taking care of the most vulnerable members of our society.
Posted by: Jordan Frazer at October 31, 2005 09:38 PM
Excellent comments... Well worth the read
Posted by: Harold Ey at November 1, 2005 05:23 AM