Come join the teaching profession and you’ll see why. What was your college major, by the way? Are you against Unions and Tenure and Job Protection in general, or is it something about Teachers that gets your goat?

Now, believe me, I get it.  Randi has put the word out to Mulgrew the union cannot go against “educational reform.”  If the union is pictured as such, that would hurt her chances to become the next Arne Duncan if Obama can beat the tax evader, hardly a sure thing.  To do that, ever since the last contract, the union has given in time after time and done nothing while Bloomberg has systemaically gone about destroying the morale and getting rid of many good teachers.  And don’t think for one sec ond these tenure decisionis are based on a true analysis of the teachers.  The Principals are told they have quotas and if there are any brave Principals out there (of course given the way Principals are put in jobs today, there are very few), the Superitendnts are there to impose their own quotas.

Hopefully when Bloomberg is gone, a new Mayor will work with the professionals, incloudng the teachers, to put the school system back together again but that’s a year and a half down the line.

Just to correct a statement in the article, the phrase “lifetime guarantee of employment” is simply untrue and the D.O.E.’s chief academic officer (I wonder what he gets paid to do) should know better.  Tenure simply guarantees a teacher “due process”, meaning they can not be fired for frivolous reasons.