Re: Employers going too far?
We do not really have a teacher's union in Oklahoma. So your comment about letting people go? Don't I know it. My stepdad was a union truck driver for 20 years, and when they got laid off, or anything like that, they helped us out.
In our area, the problem tends to be that teachers with experience and Master's degrees are more expensive to hire because they have better skills and training..so schools put first year teachers through a meat grinder. I have also seen a great deal of rampant nepotism.
I do not believe an employer should have the right to fire you for any reason. Here is why:
Right now the perception of disabled veterans are we are all gun toting PTSD psychotics or drug addicts. I had one interview that it was going great until I got to the disability part.
Teachers get treated as if they are somehow lazy. I was working 12 to 14 hour days and doing loads of work on my own time. I also bought my own lab supplies. I will not go farther into it.
Occasionally you get a good private or charter school (Sounds like you did) but most do not perform better unless they have discriminatory enrollment practices. One of my classes was over 50% special education and I rarely had the special education co teacher in my room.
The more of this type of power employers get, the worse it will be for anyone working. For instance, say you have been doing a job for ten years, with no raise. Someone ten years younger than you comes along and is willing to work for less than you are. You are out of a job.
Is that right or fair? The time when employers did right by their employees is long past. Now, anything bigger than a mom and pop small business follows only the bottom line, and if the workers do not have a living wage...so what.
I get what you are saying... but i also see it from both sides.
The portion of the company my Wife works in has no union... however they have a great atmosphere, promote from within, get regular reviews and raises for good performance. There is a union portion of her company and the comparison is sad. Lots of careful dialog, constant worrying about violating some rule, the whole thing is sad.
I believe that if you hang your hat on a job that requires you to be young/strong to perform a task you shouldn't be surprised when they replace you with a young person.
Employers have to be profitable in order to be successful unless supported by taxation such as a public school. You dont have to look far to find a company that has been busted buy union leverage on wages, benefits.
The Post Office is a great example, been operating in the red for sometime. It will likely be dismantled in the future. If they were not protected by federal laws they would have been run out of business by Fed Ex or UPS a long time ago.
I have had many jobs in my life, everyone i have left on my own. Almost without exception they all asked me to stay when i gave notice. I now work for myself.
Private schools are run like a business and that's why they perform so much better. If a teacher doesn't perform he/she is sent packing. If a student doesn't perform he/she is sent packing.
I was recently told by a College enrollment Person, that came to our school for a learning session with parents, that they consider a student from private schools such as ours that gets B's and C's a better entrance candidate than an A student from a public school.
How sad is that.
