For all the talk about the need to improve the public schools and get rid of incompetent teachers, school systems around the country are being hammered with dreadful cutbacks and teachers are being let go in droves, not because they are incompetent, but strictly for budget reasons.
But when an incompetent high school counselor sends someone else's transcripts to the university, Shaun finds himself rejected.
The worst thing that ever happened to incompetent public-school districts was the growth of private schools: they siphoned off the kind of parents who would otherwise have agitated more strongly for reform.
And she made aggressive changes at poor schools, firing incompetent teachers and closing failing schools entirely.
And for several decades we have proclaimed a crisis in education with ever increasing urgency, blaming incompetent teachers, failing schools, low standards, and obstructionist unions.
After leaving government, she called for the removal of incompetent teachers, for tying school performance to student scores, and for closing failing schools.
Ms. Alaiwat has said that students never lacked for texts and resources, and that she and her board had to take decisive action to rid the school of incompetent employees.
The argument that millions of children must have their lives snuffed out by failing schools and incompetent teachers just to keep impregnable the wall between church and state has worn thin in millions of homes, including my own.
In another effort aimed at incompetent teachers, Mr. Levy said the school system must be able to fire them faster and with far less red tape.
In the film, Cameron Diaz plays Elizabeth Halsey, a junior high school teacher so incompetent and chemically regulated that she shows movies all day, barely registers one student's slapping another with coleslaw and steals the answers to a state-administered exam.
