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...Unfortunately, seniority-based layoff policies in the teaching profession—set by law or contract in most states and heavily backed by teacher’s associations??are common but flawed practices. Those fired are most often young teachers who have missed out on tenure opportunities. Experienced teachers who take time off to pursue other projects are also penalized by the system because they lose seniority when they leave a school district. At a time when the president is calling on more Americans to enter the teaching profession, this apparent dispensability is extremely demoralizing; it makes little...
...this sly, wafting doubt is the greatest injury done. When perfectly able minorities must constantly disprove a default presumption of being unqualified for their jobs—that is a problem. When, to remedy racial and gender barriers in society, we conjure up new negative associations??that is a problem...
...person in a group infringes the group’s freedom of expressive association if the presence of that person affects in a significant way the group’s ability to advocate [its] viewpoints.”According to FAIR, law schools likewise are “expressive associations??—except their message is that anti-gay discrimination is wrong. And by compelling law schools to include military recruiters in career fairs and other activities, the Solomon Amendment forces the schools to transmit the opposite message, FAIR says.Technically, the Solomon Amendment does not directly require...
...literature, post their job announcements, and e-mail students to set up interviews, they’re being forced to disseminate the government’s message of discrimination,” Frase said. The Third Circuit panel majority agreed, ruling that law schools are “expressive associations?? and cannot be compelled to advocate a viewpoint against their will...
...Living My Life, parallels the currents of the radical movement of her time. Filled with fury by the Haymarket Affair of 1886—in which the government arrested several suspects for a bomb attack at the Haymarket labor riots in Chicago with no substantive evidence beyond their union associations??Goldman found herself compelled towards pacifism, a “rethinking of the symbolic violence” that pervaded the era. Her inner strength helped lead to a new mission for anarchists as political organizers—a paradox, since those who oppose governments must frequently turn...