What Gets My Goat
Comments (2) When I read articles like this one, “despair” is too weak of a word to describe how I feel about the teaching “profession”. Granted, I work in a school context vastly different from NYC, but I still hold the same title as the people described in this article.
The sentence that stopped me in my tracks:
…Mohammed’s case [a tenured teacher in NYC charged by her administration as professionally incompetent] will probably have cost the city and the state (which pays the arbitrator) about four hundred thousand dollars.
Nor is it by any means certain that, as a result of that investment, New York taxpayers will have to stop paying Mohammed’s salary, eighty-five thousand dollars a year.
There’s a part of me that just wants out out out of teaching when I read about this.
Themocracy