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To: SilentZ who wrote (464336)	5/2/2009 3:53:10 PM
From: Tenchusatsu	1 Recommendation Read Replies (3) \| Respond to of 1575046

Z, more evidence that the teachers unions have too much power: Firing teachers can be a costly and tortuous task latimes.com A Times investigation finds the process so arduous that many principals don't even try, except in the very worst cases. Jettisoning a teacher solely because he or she can't teach is rare. ... The district wanted to fire a high school teacher who kept a stash of pornography, marijuana and vials with cocaine residue at school, but a commission balked, suggesting that firing was too harsh. L.A. Unified officials were also unsuccessful in firing a male middle school teacher spotted *lying on top of a female colleague in the metal shop,* saying the district did not prove that the two were having sex.