Our View: Teacher layoffs based only on seniority fail kids.

http://www.usatoday.com/news/opinion/editorials/2011-03-09-editorial09_ST_N.htm

This authors intended audience would have to be every one! It's national of what's going on in this article. The authors credibility in this article comes directly from factual information that is happening in our states and nation also information that is being provided to us from our very own government. This authors arguments in this article are obvious-such as his focus on the kids rather than the adults. Arguing that it shouldn't be seniority that gets chosen to be teaching young adults, in his opinionated article he also states "You need only look at New York to see how senseless the current system is. When a teacher who has put a student in a chokehold or been rated unsatisfactory two years in a row keeps his job while a newer, better teacher is laid off, something needs to change." Which completely true! Why leave the crappy teachers in school teaching the kids whom they care less about and take out the new educated teachers are being taken from their jobs when they are the ones who need a chance at a job and a chance to share their education to younger American kids. The logic is quite factual and I completely agree with this article. I disagree with the government cuts and I pray it changes fast! The teacher evaluation system is also lacking, which shouldnt due to the fact that should be the number one way to prove that our kids are learning the right stuff we need to learn. It's scary and sad and it seems like no matter how many points you prove the government only makes it worse. I completely agree because teachers should get the respect they need. I have always seen it as teachers needing the one to get more pay or at least more than usual, they are the ones TEACHING our kids what they need to know, PROTECTING them the best way possible, EDUCATING them through attitudes that should be slapped for and yet they get paid some shitty salary because what?! SEE! No reason. LOL. Teachers should be getting more jobs than normal. And the government wonders why there is so much crime and kids on the street, I know its always going to be there, but hell there would be less if more opportunities were available! Teachers do so much for so little pay. But whats worse is would teachers do little if they got so much pay???