Why is it so difficult for teachers to get fired?

[Soul System]

As a teacher, I agree with Loddfafner and Civis Batavi.

In fact US contributors are talking about a different system than the one existing in Europe. Their system has social control mecanisms like intellectual compliance, political correctness and ritalin.

A good reason for teachers not being able to be fired is that they can teach real content, and won't have to bow down to special interest groups, religious freaks "du jour" and hypocritical parents.

Most people having a grudge with teachers either :
- were terrible pupils themselves
- overestimate themselves (it's always beneficial to let them speak, so as to pick up their internal contradictions)
- are covering their children no matter what
- or were never in contact with school since they left it, and rely on third-party information (usually TV)

It's true that there are terrible teachers, but given the conditions they work in, it's easily understandable they are not outperforming. If you don't have the urge or a higher calling to share knowledge, it is a grinding job.

There is a deliberate lowering of standards in the media that date back to the late 60's at the very least. Add to that the not-deliberate influence of videogames, texting and Facebook, and you have the material teachers have to work with. But, to the parent in denial, their child is always "special" and the teachers are always at fault.

The day real teachers get fired, there will be a black market for knowledge, and then those who cried for fire teachers will cry because they won't be able to afford one.

[Teyrn]

Unions.