Los Angeles Looks at Firing Teachers

Yes, tenure needs to be tougher, but it also must mean something. Here we are 3 years laterand we see that bad teachers are actually protected by administration, which is protected y school officials, which also conceal serious offenses like that of George Hernandez, Mark Berndt and Mr. Chapel according to allegations. Before the Miramonte Scandal Steve Rooney, Marlo Duffin and others established the fact that LAUSD his the worst culprits by buying them off, transferring them or just plain ignoring the fact they were harming kids.

I am sure Ms. Collins i tentions are pure but Deasy was not very specific when he issued a directive to administrators: fire those teachers!

So what we face now is a free for all where LAUSD and theboard are ignoring protocol and rubber stamping teachers through when many arewhistleblowers, victims of reprisals and targeted because they have cases in the WC court , DFEH , etc.

I suggest the district put these cases in check or eventually it will cost LAUSD a great deal of money. These cases are agregious miscarriages of justice. Yes, let's fire teachers who are unfit or incompetent( that test is a woefully inadequate method and as I explained, too many administrators are not objective). We do have to do these correctly . Mr. Vladovich is right, so please go back and check yourselves.

Rene Diedrich of CA 1:22AM July 27, 2012