StudentsFirst.org: Teachers share how seniority based layoffs do not help students
admin | Sep 05, 2011 | Comments 11
Join the Movement: studentsfirst.org Seniority based layoffs do not aid students. Last In Initially Out is the valuable issue in United States culture reform. These teachers and citizens share how LIFO effected their student’s culture and communities. . What is “Last In, Initially Out”? In most jurisdictions, layoffs are based on seniority, an outdated and bureaucratic practice known as “Last In, Initially Out” (LIFO). LIFO means that the last teacher hired has to be the initially teacher fired, regardless of how excellent they are. A teacher’s performance plays no role in who stays and who goes. What’s Incorrect With “Last In, Initially Out”? LIFO is in house to protect a system of adult entitlement. It hurts kids, valuable teachers, and whole communities for three reasons: 1. Investigate indicates that when districts conduct seniority-based layoffs, they end up firing some of their most highly effective educators. These are the inspiring and powerful teachers that students remember for the rest of their lives, and we lose more of them with every LIFO layoff. 2. LIFO policies boost the number of teachers that districts have to lay off. Because junior teachers make less money, districts have to lay off more of them in order to fill budget gaps. We lose more teachers and more jobs. 3. LIFO disproportionately hurts the highest need schools. On average, schools in poorer districts have larger numbers of new teachers — these teachers are the initially to lose their jobs in a layoff. High-income areas …
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I agree with this 100%. In addition to this, the teachers are also people. You don’t make rid of a teacher because he just happened to be unlucky enough to be born a few years later than another teacher. These are hard working people that deserve better. It seems like all of the trustworthy, hardworking people these days are getting screwed over everywhere.
How about increasing taxes and not having to lay off teachers in the initially house?
@regionfree1 this is about destroying culture PERIOD, STATISTICS PROVE THIS
@MsJanetWood Why are you so butt hurt over michelle rhee? she is telling the truth,make rid of terrible teachers and keep the excellent ones,all you care about is your pay, not these children who lack behind the rest of the world,you have been exposed MsJanetWood.
She would tutor kids afterschool, while she was on “unemployment”?
Teachers don’t make unemployment. When you make fired, you make FIRED!
In the WAITING FOR SUPERMAN movie, Geoffrey Canada states, ” I really know how hard it is to be a GOOD teacher.
It took me 3 years to become a DECENT teacher, BEFORE I really LEARNED my CRAFT.
And then in about 5 years, I was a MASTER teacher.”
Ironically, 50% of NEW teachers QUIT within 5 years!
Inner-city schools are innundated with NEW teachers, because once a teacher gains EXPERIENCE, she moves to a school in the suburbs. Schools where the kids really listen to the teacher.
Like x1000
Sounds reasonable ….don’t know what the other commentators here are smoking; but keep it away from me.
@kikmyst2 He said that when exactly?
Stop talking utter bullshit.
Is Osborne’s own pension on the line? No! Who pays for Osborne’s stout salary and pension?
If I was a revolutionary I would say “Let us kill this Mother Fucker Jewish PARASIDE”; as Jesus said it 2000 years ago!