re: #317 Decatur Deb

If a school system can’t shake off an incompetent, non-fixable teacher, that is a management failure, not a union failure. Get better administrators who know how to use their vast advantages.

Tenure in the NYC school system is a beast.

Firing an incompetent teacher can take two years or more.

Administrators simply reshuffle the deck— moving bad teachers into other schools (now that the rubber room is gone) and getting the dregs from other schools— because going through the procedure is just too time-consuming.

Gaining tenure in NYC is an absolute nightmare as well. I’ve known several competent well-liked and effective teachers denied tenure in favor of people with personal relationships with principals.

The whole thing is broken and no one (including me) has any idea how to fix it.