Comments on: CA poll: Public schools good, tenure bad https://calwatchdog.com/2015/04/16/ca-poll-public-schools-good-tenure-bad/ Mon, 06 Feb 2017 23:17:05 +0000 hourly 1 By: Unions in the News - Weekly Highlights | NEW CAL POLICY https://calwatchdog.com/2015/04/16/ca-poll-public-schools-good-tenure-bad/#comment-127036 Mon, 06 Feb 2017 23:17:05 +0000 http://calwatchdog.com/?p=79157#comment-127036 […] CA poll: Public schools good, tenure bad By James Poulos, April 16, 2015, CalWatchdog.com A new poll indicated that Californians broadly supported public school reform, even among respondents whose support for public education remained strong. The results were seen by analysts as a danger sign for teachers unions, which have long tied the success of public education to their own strength. A growing consensus that the two have fallen out of sync would make it harder for unions to maintain the status quo, which has famously protected even bad teacher. (read article) […]

]]> By: bob https://calwatchdog.com/2015/04/16/ca-poll-public-schools-good-tenure-bad/#comment-114724 Fri, 17 Apr 2015 02:35:49 +0000 http://calwatchdog.com/?p=79157#comment-114724 “Californians trust their public school teachers and want to spend more money supporting public schools…”

What a load. They must have polled idiots. These teachers couldn’t care less about “the children.” (As they are always bellowing, “…it’s for the childred, for the children I tell you.”

Where I live they act like thugs and demand and received raises and increased benefits. The ended up getting raises over 9% and ever more benefits. Do you know anyone in the private sector getting these kinds of raises?

These government workers live in a diffferent world than the rest of us mere mortals.

]]> By: Ronald Stein https://calwatchdog.com/2015/04/16/ca-poll-public-schools-good-tenure-bad/#comment-114677 Thu, 16 Apr 2015 12:47:15 +0000 http://calwatchdog.com/?p=79157#comment-114677 Tenured teachers are NOT required to teach! Performance from TENURED teachers is irrelevant for their guaranteed jobs! Tenured educators have a great entitlement “guaranteed” job that is funded by the private sector.

The battle is on: Tenured teachers’ job protection along with no accountability for their performance vs. the students’ need to learn from teachers with no accountability to actually teach. In a “real” business, only the performers survive.

Tenure leads to complacency which leads to poor performance.

Sports: Can you imagine tenured athletes with guaranteed jobs having the motivation to be competitive against teams fighting for their jobs?

Construction: Can you expect quality work and adherence to any schedule with a complacent worker tenured with job protections?

Medical: Can you expect quality service from individuals with protected jobs and complacency to stay abreast of the latest technologies and procedures?

Tenure has got to end and let the performers survive.

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