It seems
like only yesterday I blogged of Judge Leu tossing tenure out
Like Brown v
Board of Education a chance for real educational reform to come about
Today the
sounds of silence from the Blues are beginning to rise
As teacher
tenure looks to be heading for a welcome demise
On the heels
of a Brown v. Board of Education type decision in L.A.
Another
action has been filed in New York to the AFT’s dismay
Same grounds
for the suit-- tenure dooms children to teachers who cannot teach
While the
best and brightest full of idealism just hired are sent off to the beach
LIFO is a
great device for pricing goods sold
But
educating kids requires a different mold
The Court in
Brown rightfully held an education of children segregated black or white
Is an
education flawed, unequal, and an education that is not right
An education
in which one class is taught by teachers with tenure that are only punching the
clock
Is an
education that any chance of success in life is effectively blocked
Too long the
AFT and local teachers unions have given only to the Reds
Promoting an
agenda good for the teachers’ jobs but not for the kids instead
Money is the
mother’s milk of politics and too many have made a seat a career
Mere puppets
of their donors whose agenda if they want money must adhere
It is almost
next to impossible to fire an incompetent teacher even one charged with crimes
It takes far
too many legal dollars and it takes far, far too much time
Tenure as a
concept of academic freedom at the college level makes sense
But in K-12
it is a job protection bill without any academic freedom pretense
Being a K-12
teacher should not be a guaranteed job for life when most of the world is at
will
Encourages
inept teachers graduating students not properly taught, graduating without
skills
The two top
Blue potentials Hillary and Joe
Must be
hoping the issue fades like August snow
Blues
running for reelection in the fall can only hope this does not become another
Red arrow
If they
oppose tenure to save their seat, will the union contributions be cut to the
marrow?
If there is
one issue other than the VA that Reds and Blues could unite
It would be
in the case of education of children to do for them what is right.
© August
3, 2014 Michael P. Ridley aka the Alaskanpoet
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