Author Topic: American Public Education Culture  (Read 1295 times)

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Offline TimG

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Re: American Public Education Culture
« Reply #30 on: June 18, 2019, 11:08:09 pm »
"Mechanism for accountability" - what is that ?  People are accountable for their actions.  People actually can be fired for gross incompetence
ROTFL.
https://www.macleans.ca/news/canada/why-its-so-hard-to-fire-bad-teachers/

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The fact that more bad teachers aren’t being fired is “a problem that nobody wants to talk about,” says Menuey, who authored a 2007 study on the subject. Despite research indicating that about five per cent of every workforce is incompetent, he uncovered a truth about his district he describes as “scandalous”: less than one-tenth of one per cent of tenured teachers were being dismissed annually for poor performance.