Teachers in NJ are held accountable for the grades of the students...up to a point. If the majority of students from a nontenured teacher are failing classes and state exams consistently over a couple of years, that teacher is not likely to get tenure. Even tenured teachers are not fully protected. They can still be fired, but unlike nontenured teachers, the school has to prove its case, but even if that is not feasible, many tenured teachers are taken out of the classroom if they can't succeed. They often get into administration and counseling. If they realy are just awful, schools have the option of transfering them to the very worst that the district has to offer, in the hope of getting them to quit.

About private school versus public schools, even the very worst teachers can be successful with a roomful of highly motivated students, and even the best teachers can fail in roomful of disinterested gang members. Which do you think makes up the majority of private school students? Highly motivated kids or disinterested gang members? Do you think a private school would accept gang members, or keep them enrolled if they were bringing down the success rate of the school?

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