Comments on: Rhode Island Eliminates Tenure

By: Pajamas Media » Why Isn’t Obama Afraid to Take on the Teachers’ Unions?

Sun, 14 Mar 2010 07:44:05 +0000

[...] With Rhode Island being singled out as having one of the nation’s worst education gaps, with a national leader in teacher personnel policy reform (and protégé of D.C. schools chief Michelle Rhee) running the state school system, and with Obama [...]

By: Bill Gorman

Bill Gorman — Sun, 07 Mar 2010 13:01:48 +0000

I have never been guaranteed permanent employment, why should anybody else? You screw up you get fired just like the rest of us. All people are created equal and should be treated as equals; there should be no special privileges for government employees that are not common practice in the private sector. We have government employees that are immune from prosecution and all types of outrageous policies making government employees privileged with rights above those of the general public. This is not equal and a policy of tyrants; they make these laws so they can do as they please knowing they are protected with what I consider to be unconstitutional rights.

By: allen

allen — Mon, 26 Oct 2009 12:01:54 +0000

Democrats for Education Reform’s picked up on the story – http://www.dfer.org/2009/10/reform_tidal_wa.php – but I’m not ready to declare the arrival of the messiah just yet.

The Chinese have an expression – the mountains are high and Peking is far – meaning that Deborah Gist proposing isn’t quite the same thing as local education administration disposing.

There seems to be an assumption that the problem is finding the right mandarin to run education and the right mandarin, for instance Michelle Rhee, might for a time solve the problems of a given district. But she’ll move on and the underlying problem will re-emerge in the form of all the things Rhee, and Gist, fight so hard to remove.

I suppose a temporary solution’s better then none although if it impedes movement towards a permanent solution the temporary solution may not be worth the price.