Require Parent Consent for Ineffective Teachers
Strategy 2.4: Require parent consent for students placed with ineffective teachers.
StudentsFirst will compel districts to reveal publicly when they are putting ineffective teachers in the classroom.
Every day, school systems quietly place into classrooms a number of teachers whom they already have identified as ineffective. Districts claim they have no choice, and they are relieved that they can do so without embarrassing any adults. The only people who suffer are the children and their families.
To address this injustice, StudentsFirst will help enact laws that compel districts to get the written consent of parents before their children are placed with ineffective teachers. Parents must be given the option of an alternative assignment in the classroom of an effective teacher. This level of transparency serves the public's interest, as well as the children's. No family should be forced to accept a poor teacher because of a tenure law, aggressive union protection, or district inaction.
