By the way, just because you are sacked doesn't mean you are a shitty teacher. Administrators flout the law all the time:
n 2011-12 in North Carolina, 17 teachers were dismissed, according to a state Department of Public Instruction report on reasons teachers leave employment.
“I was shocked at the small number who were actually dismissed through the current procedure,” Berger said.
But Richard Schwartz, a Raleigh lawyer who represents school boards in cases of teacher dismissals, said the numbers are misleading. Dismissal is extremely rare, he said, but there’s a good explanation for that.
“Instead, what happens is teachers resign rather than go through that,” Schwartz said. “School systems have gotten very, very good at effectively removing poorly performing teachers. ... The overwhelming majority of these cases get resolved without going to a hearing.”
The DPI report said 147 teachers reported resigning to avoid being dismissed. An additional 1,018 resigned without saying why.
Those who didn't report why they resigned did so in lieu of dismissal, but they were too embarrassed to say why. It is what it is. If you are faced with termination and you don't go through the sham hearings, you resigned in lieu of (instead of) being dismissed, i.e., fired.
Teachers take the "settlements" believing resigning is better than being terminated, but given the fact they have to disclose resignations in lieu of dismissals on job applications, it doesn't help them at all. It's rightfully seen by employers as an admission of guilt. After all, if you are innocent of the allegations, why not go through the administrative process?
School districts are "good at" getting rid of unwanted teachers (most aren't "poor performing," whatever that means) by simply suspending them without pay in an effort to starve them into separation agreements paying little but help screw teachers out of UI, and to save money on wrongful termination lawsuits. Once a teacher resigns in lieu of a dismissal, he or she CANNOT sue a school district. That is one of the main reasons I went through the joke of a hearing. I didn't realize I needed to file a claim with EEOC right away, so I was screwed over in that realm.
ALEC is behind the movement to gut civil service protections for teachers.
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