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faramir77 posted...

Zeus posted...

At any rate, if you want REAL job security, join a teacher's union. You can no-show or just sit there reading a paper instead of teaching and still keep your job. That's REAL job security.

I'm a teacher. I need to have comprehensive documentation for each and every lesson I have in the event the superintendent checks on me or I get audited. Also, there is no such thing as a permanent contract, and my job is always in jeopardy each year.

You should teach in a major American city then.

http://www.nydailynews.com/new-york/education/city-spend-29m-paying-educators-fire-article-1.1477027

The teachers and school administrators are accused of abusing kids, breaking rules or just being lousy educators. But they're still collecting salaries because of a controversial firing process that makes it too difficult to terminate bad employees, education officials charge.

Back in 2010, Mayor Bloomberg and the city teachers union agreed to eliminate the shameful "rubber rooms" that house these expensive educational pariahs, but critics say the only difference is that today the accused teachers are spread out in spare offices across the city instead of being herded together.

It's a process that often drags on for years, all the while they still collect full pay. That's not counting teachers who were caught turning their class into a glorified study hall while they read a newspaper, talked on a phone, etc, who merely got a reprimand thanks to their unions.
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