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October 05, 2006

The “Dance of the Lemons”

The “Dance of the Lemons”– An Illustrated Guide As to How to Fire A Public School Teacher in NYC

The series of steps a principal must take to dismiss an instructor is Byzantine. And not in a good way either. This is the story what it takes to fire sex pervert teachers in NYC. It is a sad, but funny, tale.

“The rules were well-intended. The union was worried, says John Stossel writing in Reason.com, “that principals would play favorites, hiring friends and family members while firing good teachers. If public education were subject to the competition of the free market, those bureaucratic rules would be unnecessary, because parents would hold a bad principal accountable by sending their kids to a different school the next year. But government schools never go out of business, and parents' ability to change schools is sharply curtailed. So the education monopoly adopts paralyzing rules instead”.

Oh? How so you ask? Well, read on:

“The regulations are so onerous that principals rarely even try to fire a teacher. Most just put the bad ones in pretend-work jobs, or sucker another school into taking them. (They call that the ‘dance of the lemons.’) The city payrolls include hundreds of teachers who have been deemed incompetent, violent, or guilty of sexual misconduct. Since the schools are afraid to let them teach, they put them in so-called "rubber rooms" instead. There they read magazines, play cards, and chat, at a cost to New York taxpayers of $20 million a year.”

But hey, WTF? It’s only taxpayer’s money, and which flows as easy as water in NYC. And so it is probably easier and cheaper to spend the $20 mil than have some unionized and tenured perv molest, bugger, or otherwise traumatize the children, eh? That’d be my choice.

Posted by Ali Massoud at October 5, 2006 12:23 PM

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