It's Time To Fire "Bad" Union Leaders Like Randi Weingarten [View all]

[Smarmie Doofus]

A reasonable response to Ms. Weingarten's inane speech last week. Good god, is she unaware that she's supposed to represent the people whose dues pay her extravagant salary and pay for her extravagant perks?

From Perdido Street Blog:


TUESDAY, JULY 23, 2013

It's Time To Fire "Bad" Union Leaders Like Randi Weingarten
Randi Weingarten led the attack on firing "bad teachers" yesterday, giving more ammunition to the "Bash Teachers" movement by saying that teachers who are ineffective at their craft do not deserve to be defended and should be fired.

She said teachers should turn on each other in schools and hound out the "bad" educators, further helping the "Bash Teachers" movement by setting up a divide and conquer atmosphere in public education.

And yet, as NYC Educator points out here, the new teacher accountability mechanisms Weingarten champions are error-riddled garbage, so essentially any teacher can be labeled "bad" or "ineffective" under these systems.

Theoretically, this is the kind of thing the head of a teachers union ought to be protecting her teachers from, but instead Randi Weingarten has fully embraced not only the frame of the "Bash Teachers" movement on this issue but also the rigged accountability mechanisms the movement plans to use to fire as many teachers as they can as fast as they can.
The rest: http://perdidostreetschool.blogspot.com/2013/07/its-time-to-fire-bad-union-leaders-like.html