Nominate the worst unionized teachers and win $10,000
March 12, 2008 by libertyisforme
From the New York Post:
A national anti-union group [Center for Union Facts] has launched a $1 million campaign against bad teachers, seeking nominations for the 10 worst unionized instructors to receive $10,000 rewards if they agree to step down.
Why would any organization do this?
Critics have long said collective-bargaining agreements in many school districts make it difficult, if not impossible, to fire poorly performing or misbehaving teachers. “The next-best idea,” he says [Rick Berman], “is to get people to voluntarily quit.”
I applaud how creative and aggressive Center for Union Facts is being at trying to expose corruption among unions. Something like this takes some big cojones, testicles.
This isn’t anti-teacher but anti-union, I want everyone to get this straight.
Imagine you being in a union - any union - and being frustrated during a team or department meeting, thinking why won’t they just fire him or her!
Well, consider unions like temp agencies that create these super elaborate contracts with school districts, preventing principals from immediately firing teachers because they must follow certain disciplinary interventions before canning someone.
Think of it this way, imagine calling a 1-800 number and being force to undergo a slow and long-winded automated message because you can’t press zero before reaching an operator.
Same thing; this is what unions do and it’s wrong.
H/T: E3
Wow. That does take some large balls and even larger ones for any of the lousy teacher to take the money (since they are left anonymous by CUF unless they accept the “prize”).
Definitely will keep my eye on this one.
I’d suggest sending this off to all school board members. They probably already know who the bad teachers are and can’t do anything about it.
In December of 2006, my local school district fired a teacher after 9 months of disciplinary steps. In January 2007 they hired the same teach back. Of course I could never get any information on the exact nature of the issue through my FOIA requests. It was considered a personnel matter and therefor exempt.