End Due Process for Abusive Administrators?
One of the most vitriolic and idiotic elements of the Ed Deform and Teacher Bashing movements is their assertion that the schools are filled with terrible or dangerous teachers who are impossible to remove because of tenure and due process protections and that these parasites force novice teachers (who are all presumed to be better than their more senior colleagues) out of jobs.
But what about administrators who lack the time or competency to effectively monitor and evaluate their employees or who wield evaluations as a weapon to harass teachers they do not like? The fact is that administrators themselves can be incompetent, abusive and even guilty of criminal misconduct.
Should we end due process, seniority and tenure for administrators?
Oh yeah, they don’t have these protections. They have something better: status and power.
Consider the case of Ramon Cortines, former superintendent of LAUSD, SFUSD, Pasadena