My school is funny

Pre-College Issues High School Life
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<p>They just fired 6 teachers and the principal is resigning because she and the superintendent dont get along.</p>

<p>the stats teacher, the chorus teacher (they always fire chorus teachers), one of the sociology teachers, an english teacher, a history teacher, and the theater teacher. they also got rid of a cheerleading coach and a fencing coach. i swear they do this as a joke too...they just have to hire new people for their spots and these teachers weren't AMAZING but there are definitely worse...the kids are gonna have a sit-in...the stats teacher was crying all day...</p>

<p>do your schools randomly fire teachers just to hire new ones--usually worse</p>

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<p>Our school fires teachers that cost too much.</p>

<p>Our AP History and Gov teacher has been teaching for three years, has a better average grade on his student's AP exams than any other AP teacher in the school...but since he has a Ph.D., the school has to pay more, and is firing him for it. Sad...</p>

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<p>Don't they get tenure after like three years? Our teachers do. I don't know if that's a district, state, or national thing, though.</p>

<p>I've only heard of one teacher getting fired. She gave her whole class lunch detention once cause they wouldn't be quiet.</p>

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<p>Yes, but most of the teachers have only been 1-2 years, the stats 3...and they were let go.</p>

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<p>Isn't there a major shortage of teachers in Jersey?</p>

<p>Seriously, we need a huge comprehensive "Everything that is wrong with Jersey" thread.</p>

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<p>Yes there is, but my school prefers to fire at random for their own vendettas (the board)</p>

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<p>no tenure at our school. tenure is pretty ****ing stupid for a high school to have. its purpose was so that profs. could do research in new fields, where if somthing failed, they wouldn't have to worry about their job because they showed no results. This pretty much does not apply to a high school teacher, so they shouldn't be allowed tenure.</p>

<p>anyway, yeah teacher turnover seems to be growing compared to even when we were in middle school. Young teachers though :D</p>

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<p>Our school can't afford to randomly fire teachers, although several teachers have left (for various reasons) in the past couple of years, most often due to budget cuts.</p>

<p>There was a pretty notorious example last year, though. A new English teacher working on his PhD was brought in to teach. He never corrected any of the papers, though, and no one learned anything. So some people complained, and when he didn't get better, he was fired. Then someone else, a substitute teacher (who'd already retired), was found until midterms. After midterms, they found a new teacher. Of course, -she- was terrible as well. Didn't know how to teach, couldn't correct papers, couldn't control the class, etc. She was let go as soon as the year was over.</p>

<p>At the same time, some of the people in that class had science teachers that kept leaving. My friend went through three English teachers and two science teachers in one year.</p>