Contrary to ANTI Lies--There are no safe tenure jobs in K-12 California public schools

Contrary to what our ANTIs say NO ONE's JOB IS SAFE at a public school.

Teachers in California DO NOT have tenure.

Every year at least five or six percent of teachers in VUSD and other districts do not return to their jobs. They have been 'eased' out. One of the functions of the release time association president is to help in this process.

The association through the president and her appointees makes sure that there is a fair process as the association is REQUIRED to do by labor law. That law is called the Fair Labor Standards Act. Should an association NOT represent its members in this process, it is at risk of significant financial penalties both through legal actions and actions by the Fair Labor Relations Board.

It benefits no one to keep poor teachers in the classroom. No one wants teachers in a classroom who are ineffective. However it is far more cost effective to try remediation measures to increase a teacher's effectiveness before they are 'non re-elected'. Nevertheless for the first two years in a new district any teacher can be dismissed for any or no reason whatsoever. If a principal does not like the way a new teacher dresses, the teacher's haircut, the teacher's political views--ANYTHING, the teacher can and will be dismissed.

The son of a friend of mine was dismissed for refusing to coach again for a third time in his second year of teaching in a school district near Fresno. Each coaching assignment is two or three months long for two or three hours after school every day. Coaching significantly effects a teacher's after school lesson plan preparation and student paper grading time.

Teaching is not easy. No children anywhere just sit quickly in their seats for more than thirty seconds at best as any parent who has had a birthday or slumber party at their homes well knows.

When you remember a quiet classroom where you were learning a lot or if you observe a quiet well mannered class today that is no accident. Quiet actively learning students happen because some teacher is exerting tremendous control of the students.

Finding the skills and the will to do is so difficult that the vast majority of folks who get a teaching credential are never able to use it as an employed teacher.

The attrition rate among new public school teachers is very high. Nearly half of all newly employed public school have left the profession within five years.