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In reply to the discussion: A teacher’s perspective: Firing Day at a Charter School [View all]knitter4democracy
(14,350 posts)11. It's this way in the private schools, too.
One is never sure until those contracts are put in the mailboxes, and it's a nailbiter every year.
Then again, I teach for one more week in a high school that's been closed. *sighs*
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Not surprisingly, this is corporate culture and it has no business in schools
BrotherIvan
Jun 2013
#2
Most people won't find out about what's really happening in education until it's too late
We People
Jun 2013
#3
27 year veteran teacher here, and I advise all young people to avoid the education field
lindysalsagal
Jun 2013
#4
Talk to a few who were forced out of education, and then you will know how bad it is
duffyduff
Jun 2013
#16
weingarten is, because she signed on to measures that result in teachers getting fired. i'm sure
HiPointDem
Jun 2013
#18
the national leadership has repeatedly conceeded without a fight. not an argument, observable
HiPointDem
Jun 2013
#21
i'm trying to figure out why you've made a political disagreement personal. if you think my
HiPointDem
Jun 2013
#23
you didn't refute the points about the national organizations. i criticize because they are
HiPointDem
Jun 2013
#28
all the european countries are going neolib, including the scandinavian countries.
HiPointDem
Jun 2013
#33