A court ruling on Tuesday striking down job protections for teachers in California deals a sharp blow to unions — and will likely fuel political movements across the nation to eliminate teacher tenure.
Los Angeles Superior Court Judge Rolf M. Treu found five California laws governing the hiring and firing of teachers unconstitutional.
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Reformers plan to take the fight to other states, hoping the strong language of the ruling will prompt Democrats elsewhere to reconsider ties to teachers unions. They’re considering similar lawsuits in Connecticut, New Jersey, New Mexico, New York, Oregon and elsewhere. And they plan a relentless public relations campaign, backed by millions of dollars from reform-minded philanthropists, to bring moms, dads and voters of both parties to their side.
A propaganda juggernaut, paid for by the criminals on Wall Street and in corporate America, to make sure the kids have untenured teachers with no job protections who can be fired at a moment's notice.
And after that, dozens more court cases, also paid for by the criminals on Wall Street and in corporate America, to make sure the kids have untenured teachers with no job protections who can be fired at a moment's notice.
And it's part of the civil rights movement, don'tcha know!
Because it is every child's basic civil right to have teachers with the same job protections as Walmart associates.
It would be great if we had a union leadership ready to fight what is now amounting to a battle to the death for the teaching profession.
But alas, we don't - they're still issuing boiler plate jive that is going to do little to win the public debate or the legal challenges.
I guess they think they'll still be able to collect dues even after teacher tenure laws are dismantled all over the country.
But after that happens, what's the point of having the unions around?
The Great Betrayal-- teachers repaid for activism and supporting Democratic candidates at the local, state and federal level, including for Hope & Change. My vote, my time, my money no longer is a given to these 'elected' officials who have paid us 'lip service.'
ReplyDeleteTo our Union leadership---resign, step down, don't run for reelection--you are complicit and as guilty as the politicians.
--Disgusted & Disappointed.
That's right - $ and GOTV for Obama, then you get RttT and Duncan. $ and GOTV for Cuomo, then you get APPR and the Eva Moskowitz budget.
DeleteThis is what the geniuses at our unions have brought us with their political strategies.
There is a better way and it means NOT supporting ANY politician - Republican or Democrat - who sells teachers out to the privatizers. And of course that's all this case is about - it's not a mistake that it comes on the same day that Eva says she wants 14 more charters in the next 2 years.
I don't get how the case in California is linking tenure with seniority. My understanding was the case stated that students in poorer schools have a higher percentage of teachers with less years of experience as compared to more wealthy schools. My guess is that teachers with more seniority are simply transferring to "better" schools. That has everything to do with seniority but nothing to do with tenure which is simply due process rights. Teachers in most states get tenure after 2 or so years. To be able to get a seniority transfer usually takes more time than that. It seems that the ed-deformers would have an easier time fighting seniority rules as opposed to tenure laws. What baffles me is that both seniority and due process rights are the backbone of ALL civil service jobs. If these protections are eliminated from the teaching profession, will firefighters, police officers, correction officers, and sanitation workers be next? As we saw in NYC this month, municipal unions are starting to dissolve their sense of unity due to the recent UFT sell out. If one goes down, they can all go down. Time to stick together!!!
ReplyDeleteHow is it that funding schools in low income districts isn't a civil rights issue but stripping teachers of due process protection is?
DeleteCivil rights - 21st century edition.
Not sure the tenure argument will apply to cops, firefighters, etc. I have a feeling we're on our own here.
They need skilled firemen more than they need high priced teachers. Also, there's not much corporate profit in fire and PD, so they get a pass at the moment.
ReplyDeleteYou know...NYC must put out the fires and provide security , but there are few real returns from inner city schools. They can get the same poor results with rookies- or nearly so.
ReplyDeleteBottom line: no one wants to pay for these dumb fuckin kids anymore. They are getting dumber and dumber. The welfare/section 8 parents just don't give a shit. They're perfectly fine with using their EBT card and smoking weed all day, which seems to be working. My students have I-phone 5's and $350 Jordan's. The majority (80%) could care less about school, going to college, etc. Sure there's the other 20%, mostly females from foreign countries whose parents push them. They look at the minority kids like they are the ones from another country. If only the government could figure out how to dump every single teacher in every single union and privatize everything. Let the private companies pay for this useless educational system. Why let the taxpayers fund it with hundreds if millions going in to a dysfunctional system with retarded administrators who pkay salsa music in their office and order food on their P cards for the school. It's a TRAINWRECK. The government will soon find out just how to privatize the whole damn public education system throughout the United States. I have kids in 11th grade who can't read or formulate an essay with paragraphs. It's over. Now I give final exams and at the end of the day, place the entire set in a bag, bring it home and throw it right in the garbage. All 175 final exams. Fuck it. I will make my $7,200 a month retired pretty soon. The younger teachers reading this, take every other civil service test. The teaching profession is over and the charter movement is going to explode. The war on teachers will now surely expand. There's only do much these pathetic unions can do. They will not be able to fight anymore.
ReplyDeleteIt's true. 70% out of wedlock , most have no desire to learn shit. Cradle to grave welfare system. Democratic Party slaves -and victims of this party. Only Bill Cosby tell she truth on his own people, and is called an Uncle Tom. Meanwhile, charter schools get away with much more stringent discipline under the radar. Moskowitz's and Bloomberg types know how unruly and umdisciplined these kids are, and are disciplining them...with cheap teachers. Why spend twice or more the price with pensions, health care, etc...when you get the same crappy results-NONE?
ReplyDelete...compare this with the Asians and Chinese kids who have a family structure...these kids succeed, and then some. Also...what happens when all of these new immigrants hit the school system in the next few years? This will mean even less of the Ed. Pie for the Afr. American group....which will further entrench them in their misery, and public assistance.
ReplyDeleteYes, time to write a full article on these comments. Game over for the minorities once public schools close. Which actually means, public schools will never close. Haha haaaa ha haaa ha ha haa!!!!!!!!
ReplyDeletePublic schools will never close ....and inner city African Americans will continue to be bought by welfare, BUT used as chatel by their political party, the Sharptons charlatans of the world...and the ruling class. Here,they will be herded inro ever failing and underfunded schools, so the Evas of the world make political and commercial bank off their misery. anyway..who cares.? They will never starve or be homeless since they are "the poor and the oppressed"...This is a matrix within a matrix...
ReplyDelete"They" will be fine. Welfare provides a lifetime of survival. Education reform is like Welfare reform.
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