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Show -- 1 lit Sail I .ike I ribiinc, Sunday 17. pril , I?T I it Raffertys Viewpoint: Teacher Tenure Laws Need Critical Review ; Dr Max Rafferty The time has come to take a long, cold look at teacher tenure laws in ov cry one of the 50 states B this year 1977, we have a glut of teachers that won't stop and that gets more glutted with each passing month If In ne good old law of supply and demand were operating at all in the Land of Education, wed be weeding the ranks with a vengeance, turfing out the thousands t Cloud-Cucko- of bores, and just plain incompetents who got hired origi clock-watche- o during the Fifties and the Sixties when the postwar baby boom was flooding the schools and nally when a guy could get a teaching job if he was tat alive and (bt on hand We aren't doing any weeding, of course And the reason we're not is teacher tenure. In most states, this way it works Got It Made If you can manage to finagle your fourth annual consecutive contract to teach m Zilch School Distuct, you can forget what happens after that ou e got it made The school board would have to prove m court that you're immoral, insubor dinate or incompetent before it could give you the old heave-ho- , and that simply isn't going to happen Unless you come to class stoned out of your mind, or hit the school board president over the head with a plank nr elope with one of the pom-pogirls, you're on Zilch District's payroll until you're 65 Theoretically, a tenured instructor can be fired From a practical point, however, forget it If the nree (ecides to go to court, the members "f ! 1 A , stand And a school suiTiniendont who subjects his bosses to this Dr. Rafferty the local school board usually businessmen with affairs of importance to attend to will not one tenurexi teacher got the sack In 'he Mao things were a little a grand total of 14 were dismissed In Bergen County, X J m tenured teacher has tieee canned since 1938 CK v e mild, Ohio, got around to firing exactly one in 23 . a . Tenured Result circle, Brash 1975, remarkable hurry Rarely Sacked rv terminated because can't cut the mus tard You know it Yet in hot they better sort of harassment more than once will become an in In- - 1970, of a week n administrative up in court, too being badgered by bnstl ing and belligerent barristers for the better part wind yeais too teachers rarely get the sack rarely California Examplehas more than 175,000 teachers, most of them on tenure. Should a substantial number of them - fir-- ! gi or will mo reading young Mr start reading . Meditations of to his hign si hool trigonometry class, unit something simple cries heaven to be to Inch doin mandtng it Then follow up with in person rails M.ike em and visits know you mean it Its the only way to get things done in our kuni of count l v , fi lends So fin the children's sake - gel le-s- s Free intis Lillie But under existing taws. te-- jrectc Jackassery Sheer, ab ysmal, incredible jackas sery tenng a big-cit- y school svstetn, you can sometimes tiansfer doddering Miss G lueaihing and fire Mi w. I?? wOt A Yv Hi' Necxded re' tenured employe s status every five years, with tetminatioii at least a to B possibility How to get them Without advertising, you wouldn't know. bli ard your state senators and representatives with letters and telegrams de Y Price Saie Vi mss with it g'U'-'.n- darned little can be done, and you d better believe it t'h, if your're admtnts Every so often, old Miss Guggenslocker will start falling asleep and snoring m the middle of another school as a to them Unfortunately you also transfer their problems and along with them, to be duly inflicted upon another unlucky pnneipul and mote haple-kidSo what gained'' Luggage Perfect for Spring Vacations Continental-style- d For any occasion, this deluxe imported luggage answers your every need. 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