The Seniority

Summary of article in paper today:  Great new teacher at a local project based high school got RIF'ed last year.  RIF means reduction in force, as you probably already know.  This teacher succeeded in the project based model and had a strong commitment to the model.  This project based school had to take other teachers, with more seniority, and these teachers were hired right before the start of school so they didn't have training in the model.
Now for my opinion about this article:  I'm sorry this teacher got RIF'ed, but this teacher did get another job at a different project based school.  I'm sorry that our state government has reduced tax base funding for our schools so that our schools were forced to lay off and move around teachers like crazy last year.  But here's the thing I'm not sorry for.  I am not sorry that the school system uses seniority to make these decisions.  I think it's fair.  Usually these RIFs happen toward the end of the school year.  It's a huge scramble.  After everyone is RIF'ed, the school system works hard to hire as many people back, as retirements and leaves roll in over the summer.  I think this teacher should be happy for the new job in another project based school. Be happy and keep working, and in a few years you'll have seniority and you won't get moved around so much.