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One reason that teachers have unions is to protect themselves from unfair dismissal. One real common scenario around here: a high school wants to hire some fantastic coach and the guy says he's not coming unless his wife can teach art in the same school. The principal does his best to boot the perfectly decent, maybe even award-winning, art teacher to give the coach's wife a job.
Or the vice principal wants her best friend to take the math job--or the personnel director is mad because a teacher's kid got some honor that she wanted her kid to get...and guess which teachers get the ax? All the above are true stories.
I've heard some horrendous stories around the area.
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