Tenure makes bad teachers hard to fire
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- KristinL
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This isnt quite news, but coming from a family of teachers and holding education in such high regards, i feel obligated to share....
MIDDLE ISLAND, N.Y. - Few people know better than school superintendent Allan Gerstenlauer that disciplining a tenured teacher can be a long and expensive process.
An English teacher in his Long Island district remains on the payroll, earning an annual salary of $113,559, even after pleading guilty earlier this month to drunken driving charges — her fifth DWI arrest in seven years.
The teacher will remain on paid leave at least until a disciplinary hearing in August, and it will be up to an impartial arbitrator to decide whether she needs to be fired as she faces a likely prison sentence.
"It is very frustrating that the process takes so long," Gerstenlauer conceded.
MIDDLE ISLAND, N.Y. - Few people know better than school superintendent Allan Gerstenlauer that disciplining a tenured teacher can be a long and expensive process.
An English teacher in his Long Island district remains on the payroll, earning an annual salary of $113,559, even after pleading guilty earlier this month to drunken driving charges — her fifth DWI arrest in seven years.
The teacher will remain on paid leave at least until a disciplinary hearing in August, and it will be up to an impartial arbitrator to decide whether she needs to be fired as she faces a likely prison sentence.
"It is very frustrating that the process takes so long," Gerstenlauer conceded.
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- Education, Teaching, Drunk Driving, tenure
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handshakeheartbreak
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While I was lucky enough to be in the best classes possible (except electives), I know how it feels to want certain people gone. Why would parents want these crazies to teach their kids? I remember the driver's ed/baseball coach was embezzling money and was later caught for DWI.
- 3 years ago
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handshakeheartbreak
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BrianMcFayden
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what did we learn here?
- 3 years ago
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BrianMcFayden
