Bill Menendez explains the value of teacher tenure to a principal.
Dear Sir, For twenty four years I was an elementary principal at one school. One of the reasons that we were an effective school was exactly what the nation seems so happy to dispose of, that being tenure rights. Over the years there were many instances when wonderful, intelligent people on the staff saved me from making huge mistakes simply by being willing to talk to me. Without tenure rights th
James Crandell. Hinsdale teachers and board posturing.
- James Crandell’s blog appears in the Darien Patch. Like everyone else, you’re probably getting weary of all the controversy taking place with the school board of Hinsdale High School District #86, the latest of which is the increasingly contentious contract negotiations between the board and the teachers’ union, the Hinsdale High School Teachers Association (HHSTA). Most recently, teachers marc
The myth of tenure for life.
I received two comments from reader Joe Jeffrey this weekend regarding the suddenly hot topic of tenure. First, Joe writes: I suppose this will just convince everyone I’m a right-wing Republican, but I’ll ask it anyway: granted that teachers must be protected from unfair hiring & firing practices, such as being fired at the whim or personal feelings of a single principal, what is tenure is th
6-15-14 Fred Klonsky | Daily posts from a retired public school teacher
Fred Klonsky | Daily posts from a retired public school teacher who is just looking at the data.: John Dillon. Lisa Madigan blames the unions.- John Dillon is a retired teacher, activist and publishes Pension Vocabulary. In the opening of A New Leaf, one of my favorite Walter Matthau films, an angry and non-repentant Matthau is castigating his financial advisor for a bounced check, one that has ma