Image via WikipediaThe Michigan House of Representatives passed a TENURE REFORM BILL whereby any teacher (even a tenured teacher) will get dismissed upon receiving three (3) CONSECUTIVE poor performance evaluations.
Please note that teachers will be warned ahead of the dismissal dateline and will be given help to help improve their skills. Basically the law says that three (3) bad years in a row means you will be fired.
The problem is in the Michigan Senate where the Republican majority is being pressured by teacher unions to gut the bill. If these senators don’t get any balls fast, the whole reason we sent them to the senate will be gutted and irrelevant; politics as usual so no change…status quo…bad teachers cannot be fired.
Since I have teachers in my family, I will throw in a “what if” and there are always those…
What if the person doing your evaluation (principal?) does not like you and no matter what you do, always gives you a bad review. I guess this can happen in any profession.
You would think that there are some concrete criteria that are used in evaluating teachers and those criteria can be reviewed by an independent board and I don’t know if that type of review process is available to individual teachers.
The law may not be perfect but doing nothing is not an option; there must be a mechanism to fire bad teachers because they are harming our children and right now there is no mechanism to fire bad teachers easily and not tenured teachers at all…something needs to be done…the system does not work.
I will send by republican State Senator a note to get some balls or no re-election…
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