AFT Pres/Shill Randi Weingarten thinks this is a great time to discuss new ways to fire teachers

[Hannah Bell]

Responding to criticism that tenure gives even poor teachers a job for life, Randi Weingarten, the president of the American Federation of Teachers, announced a plan Thursday to overhaul how teachers are evaluated and dismissed.

In her plan, Randi Weingarten, president of the American Federation of Teachers, addresses criticism of tenure. It would give tenured teachers who are rated unsatisfactory by their principals a maximum of one school year to improve. If they did not, they could be fired within 100 days.

http://www.nytimes.com/2011/02/25/education/25teacher.html?_r=1

Hey Randi, your membership is under attack on all sides & you mount no defense, you make no call to your membership to man the barricades, instead you continue to collaborate with the enemy:

"Oh, I have a better plan to cut of their heads, let's do it slower..."

[ProgressiveProfessor]

1. Way too late. That train has left the station and the members are being rolled over

The time for this was many years ago. Instead our union leaders went into denial and stuck their heads in the sand. Now instead of being part of an evolving process that took the best interests of all parties into account, changes are being done unilaterally and forced upon us. We lost this battle due to our leaderships intransigence and myopia. Some of what has been lost is irrecoverable.

[erodriguez]

2. Typhoid Randi Strikes Again!

[somone]

3. WTF

Rule #1: Don't help your enemy

[CTyankee]

4. Isn't there some sort of an evaluation process already in place?