| Give NYC credit for at least getting them out of the classrooms. In my wife's district, they hold on to the drug addicts and those who sleep in the classroom because they have tenure and are protected by the union. Instead of getting these deadbeats out of the classroom into someplace where they won't do any harm, they are in the process of laying off all of the non-tenure teachers (the ones who still are motivated to teach). And we wonder why our inner city schools are failing. |