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2010-05-18 Home Front: Politix

Rhode Island school rehires fired teachers

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Posted by lotp 2010-05-18 00:00|| || Front Page|| [1 views ] Top

#1 the compromise benefits students and teachers alike

And I'm a rabbi.

Posted by g(r)omgoru 2010-05-18 06:06|| 2010-05-18 06:06|| Front Page Top

#2 "If You Strike At The King, You Have To Kill Him"

It wasn't just their obstinate airs, it was their entire culture that destroyed real learning in that building. The only way to truly reform such an situation is a complete purge. Instead they slap a band-aid on a hemorrhaging wound. Halfhearted and faint measures do nothing. Should given as much damn about the teachers that they've shown their charges over the years.

Posted by Procopius2k 2010-05-18 08:42|| 2010-05-18 08:42|| Front Page Top

#3 The teachers are not the king and they were shown that. It also doesn't make sense to throw the baby out with the bathwater.

This may be more of a fig leaf for the teachers than the administration. Note that the teachers need to recommit, i.e. sign up to the new rules, and are subject to a new evaluation system. The real test will be in a year when the half of the teachers who don't get with the program are either gone or remain.

Posted by Nimble Spemble 2010-05-18 09:25|| 2010-05-18 09:25|| Front Page Top

#4 both the district and teachers say the compromise benefits students and teachers alike. ...and teacher's unions had severely criticized it.

Teacher's unions...a big part of the problem in education and for state and local budgets.

Posted by JohnQC 2010-05-18 10:14|| 2010-05-18 10:14|| Front Page Top

#5 It also doesn't make sense to throw the baby out with the bathwater.

They threw the baby out years ago as adjudged by the abysmal school performance. Do they still have 'collective bargaining'? So, in a year its the same old process of 'due process' that will drag for more years.

P-A-T-C-O

Posted by Procopius2k 2010-05-18 10:50|| 2010-05-18 10:50|| Front Page Top

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