I see no reason teacher’s jobs should be more protected than anyone else. If you do a poor job, you should be out of there.
And as far as parents forcing an unfair firing – I’m sure it has happened, but I doubt it has happened often. During my entire education and my kid’s education, I can’t think of a single parent uprising for or against a teacher.
And normal employment law will protect teachers in those cases – just like normal employment law protects other professions.
My wife and I, we hope this ruling sticks.[/quote]
Didn’t you say that both you and your wife worked (full time?) when your kids were in school? If so, then it’s highly unlikely you would have known about the actions of these types of parents. It’s almost always the domain of the bored, neurotic SAHM who has nothing better to do than try to control every aspect of her child’s life. These women usually try to get the support of a handful of other SAHMs who tend to join her because they want to be accepted by the “queen bee” of the school. These are the women who used to live for major drama in their personal lives when they were in school themselves, and they’ve failed to mature mentally, emotionally, and socially beyond adolescence.
I’ve seen it multiple times when I was a student and also when I was a teacher. Almost every school has at least one of these women (very rarely men), and they can be a HUGE pain for the teachers and administrators who have to waste precious time and resources coddling and mollifying these high-maintenance women because they have to worry about lawsuits and publicity problems.
