Mayor Bloomberg's plans include equitable funding--every kid in NYC will get X dollars and no more. The X is significant, because veteran teachers used to draw more money to schools. No more of that.
Now, it appears they'll draw the same amount of money, but principals will have to pay them twice as much. If I'm wrong about this, I'd love to be corrected, so feel free if you know something I don't. But if this is correct, guess who's joining the big ATR party?
Meanwhile, principals say it's hard to get rid of bad teachers. That's not exactly news, though.
"If you give a teacher a U, it's hard to get them out of your school," said one Manhattan middle-school principal.
"So you offer them a satisfactory rating if they'll leave. It happens all the time."
Why is it happening now that principals no longer need to accept transfers? Is it our fault if they choose to lie to one another?
I don't have a problem with denying tenure to incompetent teachers. I don't have a problem with declining to hire them in the first place.
But neither I nor the UFT has any say whatsoever in who gets hired or who gets tenure. It's odd how that fact is never, ever mentioned by a city reporter or columnist.
Thanks to Schoolgal
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