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In reply to the discussion: Michelle Rhee is smiling. [View all]ancianita
(35,950 posts)people like you saying, " Oh, crush the AMA," "Get rid of the Lawyers Guild" because they have a few -- not BAD, but just not the stereotype of good -- doctors and lawyers, now do you. Hell, no. So let's not say that no doctor or lawyer has not heard of bad lawyers and doctors being "protected" by those organizations, either. Because they'll laugh in your face.
As a 34+ career high school teacher and sometime college instructor, I have never seen tenure eever, ever, ever make teachers "bad" or "lazy." If any "bad" teachers get DUE PROCESS protections from tenure, it's PRINCIPALS who conferred their tenure. Principals.
While you're crediting teachers who have taught that reality is not all positive, remember that they also have taught that one does not "throw out the baby with the bath water," which is where you and your supporters want to go.
I'm sick. sick. sick. of this teacher hating. Stop it.