CB>  SK> Here is an article quoted from the August 28, 1996 Daily Report 
CB> Card:
CB> -> *1   FAILING GRADES:  GETS TEACHER OUSTED
CB> ->    Shehrever Masters, a Toledo, Ohio, high school science
CB> -> teacher was fired because he failed too many students
CB> 
CB> Hmmm, I am split by this issue - on one side I agree with him as a 
CB> teacher,
CB> on the other side I remember my HS calculus teacher who stated, "If 
CB> you 
CB> can't keep up with the best in the class, too bad." He made no 
CB> attempt to 
CB> explain what he was teaching and had disdain for his class except for 
CB> his 
CB> two "pets"
    I have mixed feelings about this case, but for different reasons.
    In law, medicine, and any other business or profession, anyone who 
"loses" too many soon gets fired by his clients.  That's true even though the 
clients may add greatly to their own problems by not following advice, or for 
all kinds of other factors beyond the professional's control.
    I agree with Masters that if he just passed everyone, he'd never be in 
this mess...although it would be a sham of education.
    But my question is why _he_ alone (apparently) was fired in a large 
district for this reason.  If his record is demonstrably worse than others at 
his school, he may deserve it.  And even his defense about how he could have 
avoided this by just passing everyone isn't adequate, since schools must 
budget for things like summer school and repeaters and can't afford one-man 
ad hoc decisions upsetting the budget (particularly in financially-troubled 
schools like that system.).
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