How to Fire an Incompetent Teacher in NYC Public Schools

Hint: It's not Easy...

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"All truth passes through three stages. First, it is ridiculed. Second, it is violently opposed. Third, it is accepted as being self-evident." - Schopenhauer

the thread seems to imply that firing a teacher should be an easy act. i disagree with that approach, recognizing that many schools systems are political bureaucracies and the identified teacher may be very competent but possibly unwilling to kiss political ass.
as a union official in a non-educational bureaucracy the procedures outlined in the pdf file mimicked the approach we used. in the federal sector, over 97% of civil servants who appeal their termination to the MSPB (merit systems protection board) become fired. while the percentage of employees i represented was not that high, i would certainly agree that more than half deserved to be terminated.
however, there were many employees who were very capable and and whose basis for being subject to termination was because they would not bend the rules as management expected; those employees were viewed as threats to the administration. to get rid of those 'non-team players' justification for termination was often fabricated. it was only by having access to the hearing process, before an objective third party, that the careers of these good employees were salvaged.
i find the reason bad teachers are not fired is most often because the school administration is incompetent and/or too lazy to build a document file that is essential to proving the teacher does not deserve to teach. that requires effort that management is usually to unwilling to expend

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