What is the lemons dance?
"Dance of the Lemons" is a term used to indicate the practice of assigning bad teachers to new schools or districts than to fire them. According to "bad" teachers, it means people who were convicted of crimes or who did other ethically dubious things. Many people in and outside the educational community are obviously upset with this practice and several reforms have been designed to end the practice. It results from a very simple fact that it is extremely difficult to get rid of bad teachers, especially after they have been involved. One of the main reasons is the strength of the teacher; The trade unions are intended to protect teachers, negotiate good contracts for them and ensure that they are not released for no reason, but many trade unions will go to the bat for each completed teacher, including teachers terminated for very good reasons. NACE teacher reaches the term of office, which can only last two years, thanks to the strength of the Union will become virtually unsurpassed.
In a classic example, the school responds to reports that the teacher is abusing his students by investigating and suspending, and the teacher threatens to combine the supported Union. Rather than dealing with legal costs, the school may agree with another school to simply transfer the teacher, in return for the teacher's agreement to cancel the case.
Schools are involved in the dance of lemons for various reasons. Removing bad teachers is not only difficult, it is also extremely expensive. While the teacher has suspended or undergoes release proceedings, he has the right to pay and benefits, even if the teacher is in prison, which may be a drain in a poorly financed district. While the poor teacher of Qualita is an obvious problem for education managers, they can also find their hands tied up by a system of tenure, and sometimes they find bad teachers who shift to them; In many schools, hiring and shooting for school management, but rather dictated by the school board.
has been submitted several proposals to terminate practice, including laws that would ban peopleCertain crimes of teaching or reorganization of districts that would give the administrators a greater authority to decide which teachers to hire. At least this would prevent the perpetrators from continuing to continue teaching and provide administrators more autonomy. Negotiations of ways to end the dance of lemons is difficult because people do not want to undermine the power of the Union teacher, which can be a powerful tool for good teachers.