Maybe it's because good veteran teachers have left District 65 for better pastures (believe it or not, evanston is not exceptional for teacher pay, many other districts around pay equal or more). They keep hiring teachers who have barely graduated because it's cheaper and they have no money. Tenure doesn't exist the way you knew it in th…
Maybe it's because good veteran teachers have left District 65 for better pastures (believe it or not, evanston is not exceptional for teacher pay, many other districts around pay equal or more). They keep hiring teachers who have barely graduated because it's cheaper and they have no money. Tenure doesn't exist the way you knew it in the 90s and early 00s so educate yourself. Teachers can get fired any time now, no matter how many years they have been in the classroom, and unions do not have that much power anymore, and I have never seen a union fight for a teacher to not get fired in my 16 years as a teacher. Blame admin and your school board for the lack of quality teacher.
100% this. Our elementary kid has had two rookie teachers two years in a row. While they may mean well, they wear their inexperience on their sleeves. I know for a fact that the vacancies were a result of long-time teachers getting fed up with the Horton regime and finding better pay elsewhere.
And another 100% agreement on the union. Board member and union member, Omar Salem, endorsed the recent round of firings.
Maybe it's because good veteran teachers have left District 65 for better pastures (believe it or not, evanston is not exceptional for teacher pay, many other districts around pay equal or more). They keep hiring teachers who have barely graduated because it's cheaper and they have no money. Tenure doesn't exist the way you knew it in the 90s and early 00s so educate yourself. Teachers can get fired any time now, no matter how many years they have been in the classroom, and unions do not have that much power anymore, and I have never seen a union fight for a teacher to not get fired in my 16 years as a teacher. Blame admin and your school board for the lack of quality teacher.
100% this. Our elementary kid has had two rookie teachers two years in a row. While they may mean well, they wear their inexperience on their sleeves. I know for a fact that the vacancies were a result of long-time teachers getting fed up with the Horton regime and finding better pay elsewhere.
And another 100% agreement on the union. Board member and union member, Omar Salem, endorsed the recent round of firings.