The Dance of The Lemons - Waiting for Superman

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[JagerMikesterX]

"The teacher's union says you can't fire them." There is no contract anywhere that makes that statement. What a bunch of horse poo. If you have tenure it means the administration has to work to fire you.

[MsJanetWood]

Do you think a POLICE OFFICER working in Oakland, Compton, Watts, or East L.A. has the SAME LEVEL of STRESS and PRESSURE, as cop in Beverly Hills?

Do you think WALKING along RODEO DRIVE is EQUAL to WALKING ALONG 54TH AND CRENSHAW?

A policeman friend of mine went to his wife's Back-to-School-Night. Imagine his surprise when he realized he had PREVIOUSLY ARRESTED half of the parents in attendance!

Stop blaming the teachers! Blame the loud, rude, disruptive students & their parents!

[TheHardrock000]

i seen plenty of lemons in my school but they can be laid now since the economy is bad

[actingpractice]

@namseer YES! Exactly! Another example of this, although it is realistically trivial by comparison, can also be seen in the sports industry too. The really crappy athletes are just recycled into different sports teams. :(

[fearthevelociraptors]

@laughandsmile411 watch the entire documentary, he talks about good schools a great deal

[fearthevelociraptors]

@namseer but it makes the worst impact in schools, because the kids in school now are going to be the ones running and working in other industries

[namseer]

The "lemon dance" happens in ALL industries. Not just teaching.

[97karenlacey]

@whitepaladin1959 The problem is not this man's party affliation weak school system.We need the ablity to change our education system. Which we can't because the teachers's union contract ties our hands. We can't get a longer school day or year, fire abusive or failing teacher reward good teachers or punish bad ones. Tenure , paid hoildays medical plans while education stagnates. These people think they are owed a job . I think you will agree there is no free lunch except for teachers.

[TheHardrock000]

lets do the lemon dance

u be the lemon

[laughandsmile411]

The point I was trying to make was lost in cyber space. There are multiple factors which cause some schools to be great and others to be less than stellar - (lack of) parental involvement, transient populations, students who don't speak English, poverty, illness, single parents who are struggling, etc.