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femmocrat

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3. Where did you get that figure?

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Fri May 29, 2015, 09:36 AM

May 2015

What you say is incorrect. Districts can and do fire incompetent teachers. Tenure just ensures that they don't do it without cause. In fact, the new value-added assessments (teacher evaluations) make it extremely easy for them to do so.

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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