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FBaggins

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3. Please back that up
Thu Mar 8, 2012, 01:02 AM
Mar 2012

"Fired" means that the lost their job and will no longer be paid.

Being transfered to another school without knowing whether you will return to this school or not sucks... but it isn't the same thing as "fired". They were not "fired" or "let go". They still work for the county and still receive their full paycheck unless something has changed since the story came out. In addition, while this is going on there are scores of previously laid-off teachers who now have jobs again.

This is very much like the time a union voted to take an action that you disagreed with so you called them "scabs" (usually an offensive term to a union member). If a union takes a vote and the member teachers act in concert with that vote, they don't become "scabs" just because you wouldn't have voted the same way.

This kind of "hyperbole by making up your own meanings for words" does your position no service.

Blind tests and food in class are perfectly legitimate and have pedagogical value.

Yep... but there are LOTS of things that are perfectly legitimate educational tools that are nevertheless forbidden in one school or another. Teachers deal with that all the time. Why make an issue out of something that is so obviously a pain point in these particular schools?

And what's your rationale this time for not replying directly to a post?

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