| Some of those teachers in the rubber room did absolutely nothing wrong. There's nothing wrong with tenure in principal, but too often the unions go to bat for them. In our elementary school there were two pretty incompetent teachers. One got nudged into being the librarian. He wasn't too bad there, though he was apt to show Reading Rainbow videos instead of reading to the kids himself. Still I don't think he did too much harm. The other got judged into working only half time - he got one of the reading groups in several different grades and wasn't too good even at that. |