Perhaps the people of New York are upset because so few of their high school grads are ready for college.

Carl Companile of the New York Post reports.

Fed up students file lawsuit to overthrow NY tenure laws

A group of fed-up students and parents on Thursday declared their independence from incompetent New York City teachers shielded by the state’s tenure and seniority laws.

In the wake of a landmark anti-tenure ruling in California, the coalition of 11 students filed a class-action lawsuit in Staten Island state ­Supreme Court, seeking to eliminate protections afforded to bad teachers.

“This lawsuit has to do with students’ rights and parents’ rights. We have to do away with the ‘students last’ policies. No one is talking about the children who are failing every day,” said Staten Island dad Sam Pirozzolo, a co-leader of the New York City Parents Union.

His two children, Franklin and Samantha, are plaintiffs in the suit against the city and state Education departments.

Bronx mom and parent-union leader Mona Davids, whose two kids, Mymoena and Eric, are also plaintiffs, said, “It’s great that the lawsuit coincides with Independence Day. We’re declaring independence so our children will be put first.”

The suit was fueled by a ruling last month in California, where an LA judge struck down that state’s tenure and seniority laws as harmful to poor and minority students by sticking them in classes with bad teachers.

Similarly, the New York suit contends that the state’s tenure laws deny the city’s neediest students their constitutional right to a “sound, basic education” by saddling them with the worst teachers.

The highest percentage of teachers who receive unsatisfactory ratings are currently assigned to the neediest schools, the suit claims.


 
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