Governor Christie Talks with Retired School Teacher About Tenure Reform

[MsJanetWood]

50% of new teachers quit within 5 years!

[cronowing91]

Ron paul 2012 Chris Christie 2016. Ian here from NEW JERSEY!!!

[circusmaximus10]

There should be tenure reform...get rid of those that do not produce results!

[TheFequalsMA]

@circusmaximus10 You've got that right!

[inilledra]

Here is the funny part of his speech. He is telling everyone exactly what the school board will do, if you go with his plan. They will pick you out of a crowd, because they do not like the way you part your hair and they will TERMINATE YOU. That would be the only truthful statement that has ever come out of his mouth. He is a REPUBLICAN CROOK. Nothing more, nothing less.

[TheSailfishboat]

Please do not run for Prez in 2012 . We need you here in New Jersey to finish cleaning up the mess the last 2 Governor's left the tax payers in our state.

[SNAKEnBAKEit]

I wish he would run, but I respect his decision not to. I wish I could meet him just to talk to my new favorite politician of all time.

[jencohn201]

I love how he says “we need some form of tenure because you don’t want people fired because they don’t get along with the principal, or the principal doesn’t agree with the teacher’s political views” and yet, under his proposals, the principal is given virtually unimpeded—and unappealable—power to take away a teacher’s tenure. Yet another contradiction in his shell game of him and his buddies profiting from public education.

[razorsyntax]

@jencohn201 We can only hope he gets rid of tenure or even the public education system altogether. Privatize all the way. Government schools = government propoganda. Private schools = choice of thought.

[MagnusPrime01]

Aren't there already laws protecting employees from discriminatory termination?

[88hocker]

Christie for Prez 2012

[jnjnelson]

Tenure becomes a non-issue when government gets its grubby paws out of education.

[scott1258]

@jnjnelson Apparently, you are either a teacher with or working toward tenure. Or you have never experienced a teacher for one of your children who was an absolutely terrible educator. Tenure is an issue when the "system" is unable to rid itself of "bad eggs" - and that, my friend, has nothing to do with the government.

[jnjnelson]

@scott1258 In the private education industry there is no "system" as the "system" is an inherent part of government schools. Tenure is useless in the private education system because teachers receive pay based on how well they teach children. Outside government schools, good teachers don't need tenure because the fact that they teach well is their job security - bad teachers have no such job security. Corrupt bureaucracy has only ever existed with the support of tyrannical government.

[henryoil]

@scott1258 tenure just provides due process and protection from unfair principals more interested in hiring coaches than good teachers or ones that have no backbone and take a parent's side when their child received poor grade or was disciplined. Teaching is not like an office job, teachers must worry about lawsuits just by being in the classroom on a daily basis, unfortunately that is the world in which we live.

[dantheleo]

Man I wish this guy would run for President in 2012, and I have never thought that about any potential candidate until now.

[justteach1]

@dantheleo me 2..get him the hell out of NJ!!! GO CHRISTIE....GO!!!!

[darkknight302]

@dantheleo he can't win cause most people are sane

[dantheleo]

@darkknight302 ...and by contrast obama won because his voters were insane!

[BamaKattt]

If you want to see why our public schools are so bad, read "THE LEIPZIG CONNECTION". The public school system (not the teachers, but the system) is designed to drug up and dumb down our children; JD Rockefeller funded the schools starting in the early 1900s and trained teachers in the new German psychology, applying it to education in which children would be trained like Pavlov's dog, instead of educating them as individuals. So much more; READ - "THE LEIPZIG CONNECTION"

[scott1258]

@BamaKattt I have not read this book (I will pick it up, though), but as you point out our public schools were originally intended to teach a person to read, write and add and subtract and perform rote tasks. We were in the middle of an industrial revolution at that time and we needed workers for factories. However, we neded folks who could read, write and figure a few things out while they performed their rote tasks. There ws NO need or desire to produce people who were critical thinkers.

[kmg501]

The clip got cut off.

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[BamaKattt]

please run for president.

[merig00]

Yeah the clip is too short

[jimisback]

I would like to hear more.

[EffieReal]

Hm, seems like this clip cut short before he finished answering the question.