My school has no unions, no tenure, no contracts. We all love it that way. Merit only - you work, you get paid. You work harder, you get more.
Must be the Utopia of Education. Who decides who's working harder, who should be hired or dismissed ? How do they keep the factors I mentioned in my previous post out of it? Test scores? Oh boy, can we go off on that !!!
In 35 years working in a variety of schools in a big District I saw too much to tell me a situation like that can be fair. And back to my previous post, what if you are in a situation where you might need legal help. In todays lawsuit happy world you need that protection unless you have deep pockets to retain your own lawyers.
Union was a necessary evil.
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