re: #185 celticdragon

Can we talk about how that spending is not uniform? Can we talk about well funded schools in affluent, white neighborhoods and rotting schools with old textbooks in inner city slums and rural areas?

As a teacher I’ve noticed something that probably isn’t unique to NYC.

Here, the newest teachers get placed in the least-desirable schools and, as soon as they’ve gotten enough seniority, high-tail it the hell out of them into more-desirable ones. How are the inner-city schools supposed to get any better when they get the most inexperienced teachers who leave as soon as they can?

But the seniority rules are something the teachers unions will fight to the death over.