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Education

historian

(2,475 posts) Fri May 29, 2015, 07:55 AM May 2015

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I recently wrote an essay discussing the various aspects of so called "education" we have here which are producing one ignoramus after the other, but what i discovered is that the greatest impediment toward improving education is a teachers tenure. As an example, in NYC it can cost up to 200.000$ to fire an obviously incompetent teacher and most districts cant afford that so they hang on to that person to the detriment of the children. Sad.

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Can you link to the essay? Thanks. Smarmie Doofus May 2015 #1

In fact yes historian Jun 2015 #8

One wonders how you discovered this. Starry Messenger May 2015 #2

Where did you get that figure? femmocrat May 2015 #3

tenure historian Jun 2015 #6

I know about "rubber rooms"-- They closed them in 2010. femmocrat Jun 2015 #9

Thanks for the dump and go. Starry Messenger May 2015 #4

Those lazy, incompetent, tenured teachers! YoungDemCA Jun 2015 #5

did i say that? historian Jun 2015 #7