The thing is, it IS possible to turf a bad teacher in Ontario. The union will go to bat for its members and make sure they have due process, which includes several observations, an improvement plan, and evidence of a lack of success even with the improvement plan. The problem is that very few principals are willing to go through the process, knowing they'll earn the emnity of a lot of people in the process. So they take the easy route - either they warehouse the person in a job where they can't do much damage, or they keep moving them around to different schools or positions they know don't suit the individual in the hope that that person will quit.

It's not the teachers' fault that the administrators are unwilling to go through the entire process to get rid of someone who shouldn't be there. Having been on the receiving end of a principal's attempt to make me quit, I'm reluctant to advocate for loosening the rules.

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