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Originally posted by legion
Standards? How about what the principal says? The boss has final say in firing everywhere else...
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No way is that true. There are standards of conduct for which you can be fired; lying about qualifications, sleeping on the job, intentional mis-charging of time. Poor job performance doesn't usually lead to firing, it just leads to no raise in salary or reassignment.
I could see you firing someone who you hired to repair tools, because he said he could, and then you find out he hasn't any idea on how to do it. But that could really be construed as poor job performance on your part; you should not be hiring unqualified people to start with. And if you could fire someone for poor performance, you would have had to have a metric to go by. Say repair ten tools a day on average, and your new hire only does two. But you would have told him your expectations before he was hired, given him complete description of his Function and Responsibility and expected output.
When a real F&R with performance metrics for teachers is established, then you can grade their performance and reward some and document faults of others and dismiss them. I have yet to see a workable metric for teaching.