Tom Dooher, St. Paul, column: Anti-seniority bill helps budgets, not students
February 23, 2012 at 6:05 pm in Grand Forks Herald
It doesn’t make sense to claim that more budget cuts and teacher layoffs will help Minnesota schools lift up whole groups of students. Continue Reading
So the ability to remove the least effective teachers does not retain the best teachers for the class room? I am not sure how that works. As stated most teachers are dedicated and very good at their job. But being forced to release a teacher with less time on the job simply because of that is foolish. The better teacher should be retained not the one who worked their the longest. The veteran teachers experience will make them the better teacher in all but a very few cases. In those few cases the teacher who best teaches the children should be retained.
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