Reply #31: I wouldn't call it a special case.

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It isn't even a real case; it's a composite of many different cases that I've known.

That's my point. First of all, there are many more teachers that would be better supported to improve than to remove. Secondly, most of those that need to be removed would be glad of an opportunity to move into something they were more fit for. Very few teachers enter the teaching profession because they want to somehow milk the system. They want to serve. When their service is not effective, they aren't any happier than the students, parents, and peers that would like to see them gone. What would be better? A system set up to evict people, confrontational in nature, or a system set up to assist people in finding the best "fit" for their skills when their current placement must change?

Which is better for public ed, and for society as a whole?

Which is more democratic?