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Spoken like a true believer. It depends on what that teacher's other opportunities were. Based on how some of these teachers taught school some twenty years a

Spoken like a true believer. It depends on what that teacher's other opportunities were. Based on how some of these teachers taught school some twenty years ago, when I was a student, I'm willing to bet some of them would never be employed in any other career, if they were to lose their jobs. Teaching is a tough job, but if you see how teaching is done, you can see its not actually being done in the "difficult" way. People are just warming their seat cushions. Don't muddy the waters with your romantic notions of some hard working hero toiling against the system. I'm happy to pay more taxes to give new teachers $100,000 a year in pay ... but not these low-quality morons that they stuffed in my school when I was growing up. And certainly not for these armies of unnecessary administrative drones. Tenure is a stupid f'in concept. I'm not guarded for life in my job. I don't see why a teacher should be.

Loughla 12y ago
"I'm not guarded for life in my job. I don't see why a teacher should be." I'm willing to bet that your job isn't at the mercy and whim of whatever political viewpoint is in vogue at the moment, overly vocal minority groups (meaning small in size, not minority in the ethnicity sense), or just random pissed off parents with access to the school board. Some amount of protection is necessary when one loud person can ruin your career. Remember that people get very, very irrational when it comes to their children.
- TheMagicHorsey 12y ago
  Its not like people get fired every year based on whims, in places without unions. Administrators still want good people even if there isn't a union backing them. Public sector unions have no constraints against them until system collapse. At least private sector unions have some constraints in the sense that their place of work will go out of business if they are completely ridiculous. Public sector unions do whatever they want till the taxpayer base literally flees to another place.

Loughla 12y ago

"I'm not guarded for life in my job. I don't see why a teacher should be." I'm willing to bet that your job isn't at the mercy and whim of whatever political viewpoint is in vogue at the moment, overly vocal minority groups (meaning small in size, not minority in the ethnicity sense), or just random pissed off parents with access to the school board. Some amount of protection is necessary when one loud person can ruin your career. Remember that people get very, very irrational when it comes to their children.

TheMagicHorsey 12y ago
Its not like people get fired every year based on whims, in places without unions. Administrators still want good people even if there isn't a union backing them. Public sector unions have no constraints against them until system collapse. At least private sector unions have some constraints in the sense that their place of work will go out of business if they are completely ridiculous. Public sector unions do whatever they want till the taxpayer base literally flees to another place.