re: #491 kirkspencer

Nowhere in that article, nor any I’ve found so far, have I found any of the teachers coming back charged with screwing their kids. Nor have I found any accused of hitting kids. Shouting at? yes. Poor performance? yes. Those are valid concerns, I agree.

But if you lie by exaggerating the problem it makes me doubt the legitimacy of any points you raise.

Sorry, neglected to add the second link:

fastcompany.com

Eighteen months after we profiled Washington, D.C., schools chancellor Michelle Rhee (“The Iron Chancellor,” September 2008), she still hasn’t won union approval of a new contract. After the October layoffs of 266 teachers and staff, the union claimed Rhee used a budget crunch as a pretext for dismissing veteran teachers, since seniority rules don’t cover cuts for fiscal reasons. “I got rid of teachers who had hit children, who had had sex with children, who had missed 78 days of school,” Rhee says. “Why wouldn’t we take those things into consideration?”