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Fighting for the starting position will be junior Jeb Miller and junior Jason Shanker. Neither of the two have seen a lot of playing time...
...cheap to lay off an incompetent teacher," says N.E.A. president Keith Geiger. "But I don't want it to be impossible, either." He stresses that tenure was never meant to be a lifetime sinecure but was intended as a guarantee against dismissal without just cause. Says Albert Shanker, president of the American Federation of Teachers: "An elected politician can't say, 'I'm going to fire you because you didn't support me in the last election...
Teachers call tenure a red herring raised by politicians to avoid dealing with the real problems plaguing American public education, like poor curriculums and overcrowded classrooms. Shanker argues that tenure is strongly rooted in countries routinely cited for their superior educational systems, like Japan and Germany. The issue, says Shanker, is not job security but the ethos in countries that prize educational achievement. "Mothers and fathers in those societies know there are serious consequences for not doing well at school," he says. "In Germany, if a student doesn't pass a national exam, he can't go to college...
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Indeed, Dobrowolski had to take his place in line behind the likes of Jonathan B. Shanker '95, who secured a spot at the beginning of the line by camping out in front of the Union the night before sectioning...