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Sancho

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9. A good example of why teachers need tenure, collective bargaining, and due process....

Reply to QED (Original post)

Tue Sep 30, 2014, 08:52 PM

Sep 2014

it's a myth that teachers cannot be fired. On the contrary, they are more often fired for politics and parental interference than real problems of bad teaching.

I'll bet this was a good teacher.

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Teacher fired protecting student from bullying - why due process is important. [View all] QED Sep 2014 OP

Kids lie. femmocrat Sep 2014 #1

This is what wealthy connected parents can do QED Sep 2014 #2

So they can't prove what the teacher said happened but they just take the word of the kids and fire cui bono Sep 2014 #3

ABSOLUTELY ridiculous! elleng Sep 2014 #5

Especially since one of them is the teacher! n/t cui bono Sep 2014 #7

Right, as if she were not a reliable 'source.' elleng Sep 2014 #8

24 years is one year short of pension eligibility in a lot of places. Smarmie Doofus Sep 2014 #4

I always wondered why teachers asserted they didn't hear the bullying Trillo Sep 2014 #6

A good example of why teachers need tenure, collective bargaining, and due process.... Sancho Sep 2014 #9