Bad teachers hard to fire

MIDDLE ISLAND, N.Y. - Few people know better than school superintendent Allan Gerstenlauer that disciplining a tenured teacher can be a long and expensive process.

An English teacher in his Long Island district remains on the payroll, earning an annual salary of $113,559, even after pleading guilty earlier this month to drunken driving charges — her fifth DWI arrest in seven years.

The teacher will remain on paid leave at least until a disciplinary hearing in August, and it will be up to an impartial arbitrator to decide whether she needs to be fired as she faces a likely prison sentence.

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/25430476/

Geeeze, I wonder how many WV English Teachers will be flocking to Middle Island, NY to vie for that Substitute teaching job if that teacher is sent to prison?

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That's what you get with teacher tenure.