It is very clear the priority for Big Education is the system.
The Guilford County Board of Education voted unanimously to take legal action so that it would not have to comply with state law eliminating tenure, or “career status,” for K-12 public school teachers.
The board passed a three and-a-half page resolution — read aloud by board chairman Alan Duncan — seeking a declaratory action on the board’s behalf, “asking the court to declare the elimination of our existing, valid teacher contracts unconstitutional.”
The school system said the declaratory action will be filed in Guilford County Superior Court.
The resolution also “requests that the North Carolina General Assembly rescind all provisions of the Appropriations Act of 2013 that eliminate tenure rights for teachers who have already earned and been awarded tenure.”
A number of other school boards have issued resolutions supporting a lawsuit challenging tenure filed by the N.C. School Boards Association. The Guilford board is the first to file its own legal action.
While the resolution is mostly couched in legal jargon — both Duncan and Superintendent Mo Green are attorneys — the resolution also took a political shot at the Republican-controlled General Assembly.
“The board believes this legislation represents yet another thinly veiled attack on Pre-K public education, public school employees, and the teaching profession, and more significantly, represents yet another attempt to undermine the commitment to serve all children in one excellent and unified system of public schools as called for in the Constitution of the State of North Carolina,” the resolution reads.
It is a major red flag when people do not want to be compensated based on their performance. Job requirements, duties, and compensation change all the time in the private sector.
