Re:What happens when patients find out how good their doctor...
by lmm on Monday December 04, 2017 @08:50AM
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> Nobody is happy with the system, but the only way it can meaningfully change is if it becomes easier for the NYC Department of Education to fire teachers.
It could meaningfully change if the NYC Department of Education paid their share of arbitration fees, or if the DoE and the union agreed to hire more arbitrators and work through the backlog of cases, or if the DoE got better at reassigning those teachers who have been cleared (many of those in the reassignment centres are teachers who were cleared in their arbitration hearings but the DoE haven't assigned to teaching positions). Partly this is because the DoE doesn't really believe in innocent until proven guilty, and part of that is because they don't trust their own bureaucrats to correctly document genuine misconduct and prove it to the standards the arbitrators require. Fixing that is absolutely on the DoE.
What skilled, dilligent person would want to work in a field that consists mostly of unsupervised interaction with children if one unsupported allegation of misconduct could be a career-ender? That's where you'd be without the arbitration agreement. In much of the rest of the world that's how firing people from any job works - you can't do it without evidence. Somehow those countries manage to be productive. A competent department of education would be able to do the same. Giving an incompetent department more ability to fire people would not be progress.
It could meaningfully change if the NYC Department of Education paid their share of arbitration fees, or if the DoE and the union agreed to hire more arbitrators and work through the backlog of cases, or if the DoE got better at reassigning those teachers who have been cleared (many of those in the reassignment centres are teachers who were cleared in their arbitration hearings but the DoE haven't assigned to teaching positions). Partly this is because the DoE doesn't really believe in innocent until proven guilty, and part of that is because they don't trust their own bureaucrats to correctly document genuine misconduct and prove it to the standards the arbitrators require. Fixing that is absolutely on the DoE.
What skilled, dilligent person would want to work in a field that consists mostly of unsupervised interaction with children if one unsupported allegation of misconduct could be a career-ender? That's where you'd be without the arbitration agreement. In much of the rest of the world that's how firing people from any job works - you can't do it without evidence. Somehow those countries manage to be productive. A competent department of education would be able to do the same. Giving an incompetent department more ability to fire people would not be progress.