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Thanks, Dong! I retired after 30 years of teaching and wife did the same after 35. Way too easy *and much too popular) to criticize the teachers; grinding them in the dirt is one of the worst forms of blame the victim mentality society has. I hope you all see that those teachers didn't go to work to fail, they went in spite of it. In many cases, I am certain teachers did more for the kids than the parents AND some kids do. Teachers are not blameless, and the awful ones should go. Unions can be wrong and over-react, but that is self-defense against craziness like this where 100% are fired. Dropping new people into a situation where the real issues haven't been addressed makes sense for politicians who have been decidedly anti-school (public education) and feel they can legislate ignorance away. Vitally important things have failed to happen here; they are even more crucial now for the kids. Firing the teachers wholesale and calling it a solution is wrong-headed and fails the teaching candidates in the pipeline.
Could politicians do anything more to systematically reduce the attractiveness of teaching or deter the rampant idealism of young people entering teaching. My experience lobbying and dealing in school politics, building to state levels, says emphatically that politicians who have not taught are the very ones most incapable of making quality decisions, and most likely to do more harm than good with unfunded mandates like NCLB, and most willing to pile on and blame teachers and unions. The height of hypocrisy in my opinion. My work across my career versus what I see politicos produce is far superior. And the degree of detriment to the schools is unmatched. Sorry to rant; on bad days I have strong feelings that leak out.
JAPANESE: Don't fix blame; fix problems.

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Well first lets make this point absolutely clear.......
The teachers were NOT fired because the kids were not learning....

The teachers were fired because the School Board and the Union could not come to an agreement on payment. And the School Board feeling as they are painted in a corner had to go the route of starting anew. In a direction which half of these teachers will probably be rehired...

So lets not continue to confuse the issue to say they are blaming the teachers because the kids couldn't learn....

I wonder how many of them, when re-hired, will qualify as a "new job" tax credit for that school board.

did you misread my post or something?