Randi Weingarten: Ruling Class Enforcer
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| Randi Weingarten: Union Cop |
True to her role as ruling class enforcer, American Federation of Teachers (AFT) president Randi Weingarten has accepted ruling class criticism of tenure and has unveiled a plan to satisfy their demands to dismantle it. In a nutshell, the new plan would allow tenured teachers who are rated unsatisfactory by their principals just one year to improve or get sacked within 100 days.
Mayors and school boards (as well as wealthy educational profiteers and philanthropists) have attacked tenure and seniority, calling them impediments to real school reform. The criticism relies on the premises that schools are declining in quality and that schools are filled with terrible teachers, neither of which is true. In reality, the attack on tenure and seniority is intended to weaken union strength, take away due process protections for teachers, give administrators the power to fire teachers who they dislike or who are critical, AND, most