Anonymous wrote:All through America, more deserving employees are being fired everyday. Why is it such a convoluted process to fire teachers? It is clearly not good to taxpayers, kids, or even well-performing teachers.

The flip side of your question is why should it be easy to fire anyone? Especially a public servant?

21:41
You must not be reading the same article that I am reading.

I agree with 21:39 - Admin either didn't do their job documenting for 30 years, or it was a witch hunt. Her boss simply didn't like her and was trying to get her fired.

she should've been fired years a go. Virginia is a right to work state and it was THIS hired to get rid of an awful teacher? What about union strong states?

My kids go to Rose Hill and while I heard rumblings from parents about problems with the principal and staff morale, I had no negative interactions with the principal nor do I know anything about Ms. Nichols. From reading the article, it appears there is insufficient evidence to support terminating a teacher. The administration either did a poor job documenting or the teacher shouldn't have been fired. What I find interesting is that FCPS made available today the results of its 'Teacher Working Conditions'. If you compare Rose Hill's 2010 results with the 2012, there was clearly problems between the teachers and the administrators http://fcpswcs.org/reports/summarycomp.php?siteID=005-0950 . I don't know how long they've been doing these surveys but if this was a trend while Ms. Czarniak was there, she needed to be removed. The improved results for 2012 are a result of a new principal coming on board. Makes me think there may be something to Ms. Nichols' assertions.