{"id":598,"date":"2010-08-01T11:02:55","date_gmt":"2010-08-01T11:02:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/kweaver.org\/cs\/why-its-hard-to-fire-teachers\/"},"modified":"2010-08-01T11:02:55","modified_gmt":"2010-08-01T11:02:55","slug":"why-its-hard-to-fire-teachers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kweaver.org\/cs\/why-its-hard-to-fire-teachers\/","title":{"rendered":"Why it’s hard to fire teachers"},"content":{"rendered":"

This was originally posted on the wrong blog.<\/em><\/p>\n

The first reason it\u2019s hard to fire teachers, is because it\u2019s really hard to get hired as a teacher, and we need some protection.<\/p>\n

Especially technology teachers.  I\u2019ve been teaching computer science for 18 years, and it would be very difficult for me to get a programming job right now.  I\u2019m really good at basic programming, but I show no expertise in the type of programming that is done in the work place.  Neither I or a potential employer would know if I could actually do it.  <\/p>\n

It would be almost impossible for me to get a teaching job.  Right now, I know of one opening and it\u2019s an hour away from my house.  <\/p>\n

But let\u2019s look at why teachers get fired.  I have had co-workers under investigation because of a student accusation.  I know that the accusations were false in the past, but they still had to go through the process.  In my district, we\u2019ve never had a teacher come back from that process, but I\u2019ve found them in other schools doing other jobs, so obviously the accusation was unjust.<\/p>\n

I\u2019ve had two principals decide they didn\u2019t like me, and that my subject was unnecessary.  Now, my class is REAL expensive.  While the funds for the computers come from the state,I need a very large room that could hold two regular classes plus they could repurpose of the computers.  Yes, that has happened.  And yes, instructional technology have come back and gotten their computers back (in my building).  The good news is that my school is very parent driven and the parents not only see the need for my class, but have fought for me.  (Moral of the story, make parents happy).<\/p>\n

I\u2019ve survived those attempts plus I teach math so my job is fairly secure.  <\/p>\n

The other issue with firing a teacher, is you are depriving them of about the only big benefit in teaching.  Our salaries are relatively low \u2013 and find a part time job that makes the difference.  Our biggest benefit is our pension.  If I were to get fired now, not only would I lose my income, but I would lose that pension, and since we don\u2019t do social security (we have our own retirement system that is much better), I\u2019d be screwed out of both.<\/p>\n

So, yes, as teachers we need some job protection.  Sometimes it goes completely overboard \u2013 if I\u2019m in an investigative process and I go out and make some income, that income should be deducted from what the district is paying me.  <\/p>\n

But we DO need protection.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

This was originally posted on the wrong blog. The first reason it\u2019s hard to fire teachers, is because it\u2019s really hard to get hired as a teacher, and we need some protection. Especially technology teachers.  I\u2019ve been teaching computer science for 18 years, and it would be very difficult for me to get a programming […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-598","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kweaver.org\/cs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/598","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kweaver.org\/cs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kweaver.org\/cs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kweaver.org\/cs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kweaver.org\/cs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=598"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/kweaver.org\/cs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/598\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kweaver.org\/cs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=598"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kweaver.org\/cs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=598"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kweaver.org\/cs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=598"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}