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With the dismal plight of conservatism at the national level, activist judges are going to the front to fight the fires. What about tenure in higher education? A half baked ruling using minority kids as a shield. Shameless.
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Once, before I finally left the work-force, I had a conversation with a young man in his 30s who proudly explained to me that he never voted.
Although I was to continue amicably working with him for the next four years, my opinion of him became the exact opinion I have for Mitch McConnell.
Both, in their own way, are engaged in the Destruction of the United States of America as we know it.
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It was a shitty ruling that flew in the face of established law. I hope Kamala Harris throws everything but Meg Whitmanās limo at this one.
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Good for Jerry!
In my view, if the standards for becoming a teacher are sufficiently high then tenure is a valid and necessary feature of a job with so much responsibility for young lives.
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Tenure does not mean guaranteed, lifetime employment in the elementary and secondary schools. Tenure simply means that due process will be followed in matters regarding employment of teachers. Teachers can be, and are fired, regularly, in the State of California, for incompetence which is not very difficult to prove if a principal does his job, that is, regular observation of teacher performance. Many principals do not do their jobs and often, falsely, say there is no point to frequent or lengthy observations because of tenure laws which perpetuates the myth they created. The small minded superior court judge in this case merely joined the ranks of small minded administrators.
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I saw this coming the day it was put into the wood chipper.
Harris is no shrinking violet although I did challenge her at a gathering where she spoke during the 2012 cycle about the idiocy of CAās feeble pot statute which allows the Feds to run rampant over citizens.
Her answer was that the legislature needed to formulate guidelines. Colorado did that, so perhaps she was onto something but, she also visited border tunnels, and every sheriff and county in the state like any good politician.
Also, this sets up Kashncarry as her foil now because heās a true believer in the Michelle Rhee shill every taxpayer for fun and profit called ācharter schoolsā. Schools that have no empirical improvement of record versus public education.
Tacit then, by Brown, will be Ms. Harrisās second front or parallel track versus the bag man for Bush.
Anyone with a brain could see this coming as previously noted.
The Governor is right on this. If the test is failure to provide equal protection in quality of education, then letās include everything ā poverty, hunger, class size, inadequate funding, etc., etc. Trying to blame teachers for the ills of society is just another union-busting campaign by the right.
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It always shocks me when I hear about some form of public employee who ācanāt be firedā. This always screams to me āincompetent managementā, not overly protective labor laws. Public employees can and do get fired on a regular basis, they just have more due process rights in their employment than working for a private sector boss, who requires no justification for a terminationā¦ and it still shocks me how often I hear about grossly incompetent private sector employees that somehow avoid getting fired.
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About time. It was a shitty decision with almost no basis in precedent and nearly zero legal reasoning. Instead, the main impression one gets from the opinion is that it was written by a a teabagging judge who bases his decisions not on the law, but on the political beliefs he has adopted from Fox News. Just ask yourself: if teacher tenure were actually unconstitutional, donāt you think it would have been overturned long ago, by much more able jurists than Mr. Rof Treu? Looking forward to seeing yet another teabagging opinion overturned>
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