Michael Perelman writes: >> Tenure means much more than the protection of incompetents and >> shirkers. It protects teachers from arbitrary decisions. Teachers >> unions, however, are supportive of measures based on peer reviews >> rather than decisions from administrators. Tenure also protects >> teachers from outside pressure, such as when teachers are reported to >> have taught subjects such as evolution that offend members of the >> public.
Tenure is a completely separate issue from seniority protection from layoffs. If you said to me that the unions support layoffs (or annual salary) based upon peer review evaluations (as opposed to managerial evaluations), I might disagree with you, but at least the policy would be based on the assumption that there is qualitative difference in teachers (as opposed to interchangeability). But that is not the union policy. For all practical purposes, if you manage to survive the first few years, the union position is that you are a qualified teacher and there is no basis to economically distinguish one teacher from another (other than seniority). David Shemano _______________________________________________ pen-l mailing list [email protected] https://lists.csuchico.edu/mailman/listinfo/pen-l
