After analyzing teacher dismissal cases in three large Atlanta-area districts—districts with tens of thousands of teachers—from to , Saultz found just four percent mentioned actual teaching practices as a primary reason for dismissal.
Essentially, a very small fraction of teachers are dismissed in the first place, and of those who are, only a small fraction are dismissed for poor teaching performance. Instead, Saultz found that teachers are more often terminated or non-renewed for issues of professionalism or illegal activity.
Even in cases that did mention teaching, ineffective teaching and poor evaluation ratings were mentioned after comments about outdated web pages, attendance at meetings, and untidy classrooms. In Atlanta public schools, for example, just three of 92 cases directly mentioned teaching practice or evaluations.
Meanwhile, more than three times as many teachers were dismissed for not having secured or maintained necessary training. Of course, the idea that teachers are not fired for poor performance is not new. In the wake of this, several states—including Georgia—adopted teacher evaluation reforms aimed at obtaining a more accurate measurement of teacher effectiveness.
To say that almost percent of employees are effective at their jobs seems like wishful thinking—for any profession. It went on for a good 30 seconds before someone pulled the plug on the screen around the same time he lobbed the laptop about 30 feet across the class.
Kindergarden teacher would dig furrows into kids arms with her long, sharp nails by basically holding their arms real tightly. She did this if she caught them misbehaving during recess. It happened to me when I was running when I shouldn't have, I think this was nearly 40 years ago. I showed the principle my arm as he was walking out one day and she was fired on the spot. I think I was 4 at the time and didn't realize exactly what I did at the time.
One of the elementary school teachers at the district I went to got arrested for making his class worship him like he was a cult leader. He was totally bonkers. Dating a 16 year old female student - he was also a PE teacher EDIT: I should clarify that he did do jail time and is on the sex offenders register.
Had a teacher in hs, he taught English and was the jv fb coach he was a good man and well liked. His wife worked directly below him teaching geography and pregnant, her family was known in the area for owning an apple orchard. They had their dream. The school officers daughter started saying she slept with him he denied but was promptly fired. He had a mental breakdown his wife divorced him last I know he was working at a tgi fridays. His wife remarried and had another kid.
The girl who lied came forward after and said she lied but it was to late he remained fired life ruined, she and her father transfered and moved out of town.
That girl ruined his life and got no real consequences. Damn she got him fired, divorced, and lost almost everything including his would be child. Man do I got a story for this one. I apologize for the length but its worth a read. It was the beginning of my second year and rumors were going around about a teacher having a relationship with a student. I just thought it was a rumor and moved on. A few days later we have a cross country meet and i have to get to the school at am to leave for the meet.
I noticed another car in the parking lot, which was gated closed, and no one around. This has never happened so I called one of the other coaches and he was not sure and found it strange.
I dont think much of it and go about my day. We get back from the meet around noon and the car is still there. Turns out it is one of the high school teachers car that was left from the day before. I thought it was car troubles and decided to not think much of it. The car was left at over the weekend not because of car troubles but much. MUCH worse reasons. The car was left over the entire 48 hour weekend because the teacher who owned the car had a mental breakdown in class, couldn't control it and had his sister, who also worked at the school, take him home.
He had a breakdown because his gf broke up with him. His gf So once the story was confirmed the police came and searched his classroom. His classroom had empty liquor bottles in the desk and his room was a mess. The teacher was fired and that was the last I heard of him. However, the story doesn't end there folks.
Because the sister of the convicted teacher was behind everything. Helped them arrange dates, meet ups, and covered for him to keep the story hidden. She was fired a week later. I left the education world after that semester and never looked back.
Seabear04 Report. Two teachers, they got caught having sex in a classroom. My sociology teacher in high school was fired for throwing an chalkboard eraser at a sleeping students head. He was a great teacher, and always did this in good humor.
Obviously not a great idea in retrospect, but we all knew that we could get away with sleeping in his class if we didn't mind getting an eraser upside the head if he noticed. I heard he was fired a few years after I graduated high school, and that kinda bummed me out.
Probably deserving of a reprimand of some sort, but not getting fired. JustAnotherF Report. My oldest son had a teacher who threw dry-erase markers at students for all kinds of reasons. I didn't believe my son until his younger brother had the same experience with the same teacher! He was playing his guitar for students at my elementary school.
He had been warned before, but the kids enjoyed it so he continued to play it for them anyways. One day, the assistant principal was lurking in the hallway and wandered to his classroom. She saw him playing his guitar and fired him on the spot. A whole lot of students were crying that day because he was an amazing guy. Edit: More information, this took place in a small, rural town in Georgia back in the early s. He was a great teacher. He thought that before the break, he could play something for us one last time during the last week of school.
It just happened to be the worst possible timing, while the assistant principal was walking through the halls.
If I recall, he got a job teaching at a different school. My AP chem teacher had an affair with the principal. Principal got fired too. I felt bad for her.
Not one of us passed that AP test. EndoShota Report. That's ridiculous, unless your doing something illegal outside of school your personal life shouldn't effect your job like that. Sure reprimand them both and move on. He didn't come to parent teacher interview night. The next day, he was late for class and crashed his pickup into a brick sign outside the school. Cops showed up obviously and allegedly he blew twice the legal limit. She was always drunk, and drinking during class.
She would leave us to cry in the bathroom. That's very sad as she obviously had problems Despite that, she shouldn't have been teaching kids!!
GKnives Report. Arrested by the FBI for credit card fraud. It was a few months after the arrest when the reason why he disappeared came out in the open. First off some of the early warning signs we all should have noticed first. He showed up the first day of school and told us he was a youth minister and that we would always see him in long sleeves and pants because he had tattoos and he regrets them.
That he didn't want to accidentally encourage any of us to get some too. Two weeks later he is in shorts and polo shirts showing off multiple looney toons tattoos. He taught 6th grade US History out of a textbook.
Word for word. We did multiple chapters a day and were expected to do every assignment listed for each chapter. This averaged about 3 hours of work a day. In 6th grade. He was the only class that year to regularly assign homework and he received multiple parent complaints about the workload. He would often leave the class alone to read chapters.
He would then go out to the hall or parking lot to make out with his girlfriend who would arrive randomly. He was the middle school track coach and thus spent a lot of time in and around the middle school locker rooms. Too much time He took photos of the kids running for the yearbook. These pictures eventually made it onto his work computer desktop. Then his phone background.
Only the girls though. Few would deny that the education system in the United States is ripe for a major overhaul. After all, this country has slipped from the top spot for education down to around the tenth — at about the same place as Lithuania. Another concern is that disparities between poor and wealthy students are consistently growing, as the "haves" seem to get more educational opportunities to excel and the "have-nots" get less.
As we describe the process to fire an inept teacher in many school districts across the country, it becomes easy to see why principals would often rather put up with incompetent teachers than go through the red tape and headache to replace them. According to a recent article in Newsweek , few inept teachers are ever dismissed from their positions. In , New York fired three out of 30, tenured teachers for just cause. In Chicago, the number of teachers dismissed for poor performance between and was 0.
During that same time frame, Toledo, Ohio, dismissed just. Instead of getting rid of poor performers, principals try to shuffle them into other schools and districts — a process known as the "dance of the lemons" by many schools today.
One reason teachers simply don't get fired is the power of the unions that back them. These organizations were originally designed to protect good teachers from favoritism and nepotism by school principals. However, the process has evolved into one where tenured teachers get armor-clad protection for their positions, no matter how inept they have proven themselves to be in the classroom.
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