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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]1) Poor performers at Central Office and at the Principal's level in many schools.

2) The teachers union.[/quote]

Oh good grief.  What is your proof that the teachers union is to blame for anything.  WTU is such a weak union.  We don't have tenure.  We have the most punitive evaluation system in the country.  We have very little due process, if any.  And DCPS fires hundreds of teachers each year.  What are you talking about?[/quote]

It's so bizarre to me that anyone anywhere ever thought tenure was a good idea for teachers.  Teachers complaining about not having tenure is like me complaining about not being able to get drunk at lunch.  Of course you don't have tenure.   Why would you?[/quote]

Actually, we never did have tenure. Tenure is something that some college professors have. Teachers could always be fired for cause.  All we had was some due process. Now that has been eroded.[/quote]

True, DCPS teachers never had that kind of tenure.  But it was NEARLY IMPOSSIBLE to *actually* get bad teachers out of schools that year after year showed awful results.  Guess who was protecting them and making it difficult for Principal after Principal and Chancellor after Chancellor to fire them?  WTU.  What you refer to as "some due process" actually protected a crazy number of truly horrible teachers.  Without WTU, there would probably not be more than a handful of charters in DC, although now that the charter train is out of the station, even IMPACT and other ways of moving out poorly performing teachers are not slowing the charter ride down.[/quote]

I get it - you're a charter booster - and charters don't have unions (yet) and charters just recently beat DCPS in the score game -- by a very little - and not because of the union, but because  they can take kids from all over town, from families of better means.  The charters that have mainly kids from their own (poor) neighborhoods are not doing very well.
And did you know that teachers often move from charter to DCPS for the higher pay? [/quote]

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