Op-Ed By NEA’s Becky Pringle: Don’t Let Best Teachers Get Away
August 9, 2012 by clong
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School districts across the country are laying off teachers this summer — a pattern that has become an annual rite in some places where budgets are shrinking and enrollments are dropping. The result? When students return to school over the next few weeks, they’ll find some of the best teachers gone and some of the worst still in their classrooms.
Source: USA Today
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What a disappointment to find an NEA rep parroting TNTP’s unionbusting propaganda — Did she even notice TNTP advocates firing 40% of all teachers while singling out a few and labeling them “irreplaceable”? That’s right, 40% fired every year, talk about churn! Let’s see, who will they get rid of? Ardent union activists? Teachers who speak up for their students’ right to real education instead of endless test prep? Teachers who aren’t the principal’s pets? Teachers who dare to perform their civic duty by speaking at school board meetings against the privatization of public education? Teachers who want our union to fight for our labor rights? Teachers who are near the top of the pay scale? Yeah, that’s right. TNTP and the rest of the corporate privatizer flunkies want to deprofessionalize teaching and replace real educators with a cheap, compliant, docile and ignorant labor force. All the better to foist a moneygrubbing corporate agenda on every student in the land.
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