“Another New York teacher, for instance, actually impregnated a 16-year-old student and a few years later molested two 12-year-olds yet the state still found it impossible to fire him.”

Fire him??? That SOB should be shot!

For that matter, in the example cases, there would be no problem if the school system had done the right thing and had the scum CHARGED CRIMINALLY. I’m betting they never even CALLED the police in these cases. This is a prime example of the unintended consequences that result from liberal policies intended to make life more “fair”. It is an example of the moral decay and rot that has been eating away at our Civilization and destroying the American way of life.

The union can still defend these scum because they are NOT convicted criminals. Their defense is that they are only “suspected” of crimes.

The parents sending their kids to these schools should be storming the prosecuting attorneys offices and DEMANDING a full investigation into this travesty. And ANY official that failed to report should be charged with failure to report a felony and failure to report child abuse.

Let me say this again. IF you are a school administrator and you have a teacher that has committed child abuse, and STATUTORY RAPE you CALL THE COPS. You do NOT go to the union and allow them to stand in the way. If ANYBODY knowingly attempts to stop you, you REPORT THEM for Misprision of a Felony! And if the Union Rep comes blustering into your office attempting to throw his weight around in defense of such scum you RIP THEIR F*#$!%G HEAD OFF.

My cynical side suspects that the union has required the BoE to make sure that the “rubber rooms” have Wi-Fi coverage so the poor dears can surf the net while marking time. I wonder how many surf porn sites while they wait for their cases to be adjudicated.

A lot of folks are going off on the union, but you have to keep in mind that the BoE/school administration agreed to the contractual terms which now tie their hands, and in that regard they are complicit in causing the problem we’re reading about.

Someone, probably a long time ago, blinked during collective bargaining and this is the result. Yes, teacher’s unions are some of the more scurrilous labour types in the US these days, and yes, I agree with Mr. Huston that teachers, being largely public employees should have very limited rights to representation. But we’ve also got to hold the bureaucrats accountable for the mistakes they’ve made in collective bargaining over the years. Taxpayers need to demand of the school administration types that they demand at least finite time limits on resolution of unadjudicated cases.

It’s the taxpayer who’s taking it in the shorts here, and as nearly as I can tell, they’re getting it from both the union and the BoE, neither of which seems to particularly care about the fiscal impact of their actions on the suckers who’re paying the bills.

Lazy and incompetent management types love to blame the ‘Union” when they foul up a firing case taken before an arbitratorr which would seem to be a slam dunk for management. Its like people who blame the attorney for the defendent who gets a “not guilty” verdict for his client because of an incompetent proscecutor who blew the case even though most rational on lookers not bound by the rules of evidence would conclude that the defendent was guilty.