RI school fired all of It's teachers, students 69% hispanic
Rhode Island School Fires All Its Teachers–But It Might Do Better To Fire Some Students
The Cato Institute has a posting on a Rhode Island school that has fired all its teachers, because they wouldn’t do any extra work in a school in crisis:
Rhode Island District Fires All Its HS Teachers
Posted by Andrew J. Coulson
Performance, it seems is abysmal. The district’s high school graduation rate is said to be less than 50 percent, and things have been bad for a long time. Charged with turning things around, the superintendent asked teachers (who are making between $70,000 and $78,000 vs. the town’s median income of $22,000) to work an extra 25 minutes a day, provide tutoring on a rotating schedule, and have lunch with the kids once a week. The union said no. So superintendent Frances Gallo went reluctantly to plan B: she fired the school’s entire staff.
Union leaders seem to think that the old rules still apply. Maybe they do, for now. The union plans to challenge the firings and it remains to be seen if they’ll find a way to reverse them.
But America is reaching a tipping point after which the old rules will go out the window. Having more than doubled public school spending per pupil in real terms over the past 40 years and not seen a smidgen of improvement in outcomes at the end of high school in return, having become frustrated that we have choice in virtually every area of life except public education, Americans are starting to chafe. When an education system fails to deliver on its promises for generation after generation, Americans will ultimately throw it on the scrap heap of history, and find something that will fulfill their educational needs and ideals. Yes. We. Can.
Fair enough about teachers unions, (see The Worm In The Apple for more) but my question is [u][i][b]“what kind of high school has fifty percent drop out rate?â€
Anchor kids can't read or write In english
How many Illegals and anchor babies attend that have limited ENGLISH skills? Now we have come to the point where we fire "AMERICAN TEACHERS" because their students are not english speakers,and they cannot read or write In ENGLISH either. What Is our country coming to ? :twisted:
Re: Anchor kids can't read or write In english
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Originally Posted by topsecret10
How many Illegals and anchor babies attend that have limited ENGLISH skills? Now we have come to the point where we fire "AMERICAN TEACHERS" because their students are not english speakers,and they cannot read or write In ENGLISH either. What Is our country coming to ? :twisted:
Yet that is exactly what is happening in my home town. Well-liked teachers with years of experience were fired because they were not bi-lingual.