There are some comments in the earlier post about firing teachers that probably deserve responses. They don't deserve the responses they would've gotten yesterday, though, as I was grading lab reports all morning, and the snark level was high.
Having cooled off a bit, I'll try to get back to that today (day job permitting). Let me note, however, Mark Kleiman's follow-up post, after a report from a teacher in a non-union school in Georgia.
Well, OK, that's pretty snarky, too, but it does make a useful point...
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