The increases in salary proposed by DC in exchange for giving up seniority were quite staggering - it apparently is a very valuable concession to administrators.
Can we pay teachers more if they are better teachers? This proposal misses the core issue of unions controlling the fate of our children's education. Do we honestly believe that giving up seniority will open the door to remove bad teachers?
Wouldn't requiring teachers to forego seniority give up a key tenet of the unions? Do you think that having given up seniority, teachers would still be impossible to fire?
I only wish that were true Jim. Unfortunately work rules, protection against "wrongful dismissal" and any number of other ploys will allow bad teachers to keep their jobs. I believe that there are many excellent teachers and that they deserve to be compensated well. Unions stay in power by protecting the under-performers.
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