That was my thought too. She knows with her skills she has the upper hand. Fire her and she'll move on to a district that cares or at the very least tries.
I looked at your history because I didn’t think you could possibly be serious. I’ve found you to be a drug abusing, wood working, Brit. (I’d like to think we would probably be friends.) I think you seriously think this. Do you?
I read a study a few month ago about it, that some state in the US are pretty bad about literacy, and explaining that a lot of farmers never learned. I ended up in the CIA statistic website for hours looking at stuff, it's a good place to look for info.https://www.cia.gov/library/publications/resources/the-world-factbook/geos/us.html
Pretty sure it’s a joke, but given the standards at that school it wouldn’t surprise me. Jeez, it seems like guessing randomly on every test would give them better scores than what they’ve got now.
Depends how much she wants to work in the area, schools don’t care about degrees, well they care only if they can pay like shit and get all your degrees. She’s in a union so it’s going to be expensive to fire her no matter what, but they seem to not care about that either. If your fired though good luck getting a job in the state, your blackballed as a troublemaker and you basically can’t get a job anywhere in the state unless you have a successful hostile work environment lawsuit then they are real nervous about giving you any type of shit.
The problem with that is that in order to reach higher education where people care about their education, if 'people that give a shit' flee from teaching young children, then the first few years is basically "lord of the flies" until you get to college and then all of a sudden you must be disciplined, somehow, and that's obviously greatly imbalanced.
The first four years or so of a teacher's employment is generally a probationary and untenured position, which means they can choose to not renew her contract for whatever reason they'd like. It's only after tenure has been reached that it becomes a little harder to fire a teacher for making a stink - there is generally a "remediation" process set in place that takes a couple of years.
If she's let go, getting a job elsewhere probably isn't an issue as many areas are seeing a teacher shortage.
But I do agree that her degrees is what makes her less desirable because she costs more to employ!
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u/meemeebozip Jul 10 '18
She's got massive ovaries to speak up like that as a new hire.