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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Honestly, does any teacher in MCPS lose their job? My kids have had their share of crappy teachers and even 10 years later they are still working for MCPS. Once they have tenure it's almost impossible to fire them and they know it. They have nothing other than personal motivation to do their jobs well. [/quote]

This is not true.  Any teacher, tenured or not, can be placed on PAR by an administrator.  The teacher is subject to extra observations and evaluation, while receiving additional support and professional development in the areas of weakness.  At the end of the year, the teacher can be taken off PAR if standards have been met, continue on PAR for another year if significant progress has been made, or dismissed entirely if standards are not met.  If standards are not met at the end of the year, the teacher is fired and can no longer teach in any MCPS school.

I have worked with three teachers who lost their jobs this way.  Two were flat out not good teachers and did not make use of the extensive support given, and the third had gotten into an expletive-laced shouting match with the principal and felt he was then put on PAR for revenge.  He resigned and teaches (very effectively) in another county.

Tenure really means very little in MCPS in terms of total freedom to not do your job.  Non-tenured teachers have involved evaluations every year.  Tenured teachers have them every three years. Tenure also means that if a position is cut, a tenured teacher will be guaranteed a position somewhere else before any new teacher is hired.[/quote]

So, having dead weight remain in a school year after year is really an administrative issue.  For a high school, is that a principal or assistant school administrator?  At our school the principal has done some pretty asinine stuff herself - even in front of the media - and she has been there FOREVER.  She is out of school more hours than she is in school so is it any wonder the teachers are showing movies instead of teaching?  [/quote]

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