Florida Legislature to Florida Teachers – Screw You – Seeks to End Tenure

Tenure is a joke. It keeps bad teachers on the job and makes it difficult, if not impossible, to fire them. CTA (Classroom Teachers Association) says tenure is necessary to protect teachers from batshit crazy administrators.

Nonsense.

What other job allows you to underperform without repercussions – allowing someone to keep a job indefinitely until he either dies or retires?

Who do teachers think they are? Judges?

But when Florida lawmakers are faced with all the problems in Florida schools and then decide to make this a priority, isn’t that yet another negative and nasty sign that Florida teachers are not valued?

Supporters say ending tenure is a start. Maybe they’re right.

Teachers should be paid more and the FCAT should be a diagnostic tool and nothing more. I’d support legislation that moves to solve all our education problems, but I also don’t want to deny that ending tenure is a good thing. This piece of legislation that will end tenure will also seek to raise teacher pay in low-income schools. That’s another step in the right direction.

Make no mistake. The school districts in and around the Tampa Bay area are up to their asses in ineffective educators. Even though ending tenure will only be applied toward teachers hired in 2009 and later, it’s nice to know that maybe some people in the future who shouldn’t be teaching will be removed from their positions without the current hassles holding up the process.

Some say that this legislation is irrelevant. There is a teaching shortage and administrators won’t be able to let anyone go anyway.

Regardless, teaching is one of the most important jobs in the world, second only to parenting. We should treat it that way.

Which reminds me.

Who wants to sponsor legislation that will allow us to fire parents? I’m down with that, too.

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