Resigning to avoid firing will now raise red flags

[tinymontgomery]

Resigning to avoid firing will now raise red flags

It will be harder for teachers and other school employees who get into trouble to job-hop to another school district under
a bill lawmakers approved in the waning days of the session.

If teachers, principals or other career employees resign before they can be fired, prospective employers will be able to see
that superintendents were preparing to recommend dismissal.

State Rep. Dale Folwell, the Winston-Salem Republican who sponsored the bill, said it is intended to reduce instances of problem
employees moving from district to district, known widely as "passing the trash."

"There are some bad apples who work in our school districts," Folwell said. "We just need to stop it."



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I don't like this, sometimes your get out of there prior to being fired/non-rehire because of problems between you and the administration and you want to get
out before things get worse. Now you get red marked. You turn in your papers and the principal can then send in the state report that contradicts what you
are really leaving for you can fight it but the red flag is still there.










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[rucky]

1. The War on Teachers kicks it up a notch.

next they'll go after their families.

[burnsei sensei]

2. In a totalitarian state,

it always does.

[ncteechur]

3. However, there have been numerous examples over the years of school officials who have take indecent

liberties with students who, rather than go through an embarrassing episode for the system and the official, have offered the refuge of resigning rather than being fired and facing charges. They just move along to a different system and more than likely do the same thing.

Is it the rule rather than the exception? No. But if a teacher has done something bad enough to get fired in one district, would you want them to resign and simply move to your district and teach your kids?

That would go for teachers and administrators.

[tinymontgomery]

4. True

if they really have done something wrong such as sex with a student, cheating etc. My case two parents complained and at the start of the meeting the guy called me an asshole (twice) the mom attacked my wife and son, (wife volunteered in my program for over six years and was volunteer of the year for 3 years) she also worked part time at the school and was not in the meeting. The principal just sat there and said nothing and allowed this to go on, being a type a I lost it when they started in on the wife. I got a letter of reprimand and know I would be on the way out in June so I put my papers in to finish the year and go away. Where I am now the principal is great, said she would never allow some one to call her teachers names or bring the families into it, a real pro. Under this program I would be red flagged and a possible career ruined.

[Catshrink]

5. It's like the Catholic bishops reassigning a pedophile to another parish...

...at least for the "bad" apples. But what about personality conflicts? What if someone challenges a bad principal and the principal retaliates? Under this system it sounds like both would be treated the same - and that's not right.