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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Short answer: No. It is very hard to fire a teacher.

Long answer: the problem is administration. Weast pushed out the good administrators and "recruited" a bunch of "Yes-men" who would do whatever WEAST wanted (and Weast was a total moron). So what you have right now is a bunch of weak, spineless "leaders" in MCPS who cannot run a school or student body, and just spend their time out of the building at meetings, "trainings", checking in with their principal mentors and being totally oblivious to what is actually going on in their schools.

I am a teacher and I hate it. I see the teachers around me who are terrible at their job and should be kicked out, but the paper trail has to be long (talking years) and almost always the union protects these idiots.

I say - no tenure, no union. Period. I don't think we go to a merit pay system, but I think we find better ways to evaluate teachers. Bottom line, ask any teacher or student in a school who the worst three teachers in the building are, and they will all have pretty much the same answer. It is sad.[/quote]

Weast joined in ‘99, and was here through 2010. So was he responsible for Curr 2.0 and the discipline code? [/quote]

I've been through these supts - from Vance to Smith.  Say what you will of Weast, as he did indeed have his failures, but he was by far the smartest of the crew.  Curriculum 2.0 was his baby, and it was indeed an opportunistic measure b/c of the partnership with Pearson.

Discipline had been eroding since the Code of Conduct. That tricked down from the fed level to the state to the local level. That wasn't Weast's fault.

But under Weast, the PD grew, and the evaluation system - if used properly - is very thorough.  trouble is - Too many people are either too dumb or too lazy to use it well.[/quote]

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