Students Lawsuit Calls Experts To Make Case Against California Schools
While educating children ranks high on every society’s agendas, rarely have students sued the whole school system to make it better. The case Vergara v. California offers a big exception that might make it to the US Supreme Court. http://www.latimes.com/local/la-me-teachers-lawsuit-20140126,0,4567951.story#axzz2uRgXu1JQ
Nine public school students aged 7 to 17 have taken the California public school system to court to argue that its policies and practices, based on 5 state laws, of giving lifetime tenure to teachers after 18 months on the job plus last in-first out hiring practices when layoffs hit gives students a fundamentally bad educational opportunity. It helps, of course, to have big money behind the students in the form of David Welch’s Students Matter non-profit advocacy organization. http://www.theexpertinstitute.com/education-expert-witnesses-testify-in-landmark-case-concerning-teacher-employment/?
Expert witnesses, those individuals with established reputations about specialized knowledge in their field, have testified that students in a system like California’s suffer from diminished educational opportunities directly arising from the state’s laws about tenure and lay-offs. To analysts at http://HamiltonFinanceServices.com no matter which side prevails in this case, set to end this week, it could easily be appealed to the US Supreme Court.
What do you think about students suing schools and states for giving them a bad education? Is this a type of law suit fit for our times? Or, on the other hand, is this just another waste of good money on a failed court system? If this approach is not the answer, what action should students push?
