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In reply to the discussion: Do you think your governor has done a good job during the pandemic? [View all]DFW
(54,491 posts)In Germany, they are all-powerful, and can't be fired. They have their jobs for life, unless they murder their mothers on live TV (unlike Trump). But barring that, it is just about impossible to fire them, no matter how horrible they are.
Here in Germany, teachers also belong to that category of unfireable. My daughter had a horrible math teacher here in Düsseldorf who failed 90% of her class. They complained that they couldn't understand what she was saying. She said they were just of "the wrong age to be able to absorb math." She stayed, they suffered.
She then spent a semester "abroad" of high school in Dallas, and was put into a math class with a similar problem. The kids all failed their first test, and complained the teacher was incapable of explaining anything. The teacher was gone within a week, replaced by someone who managed to teach the students what they needed to know. That is the essential difference between the two systems. In most of Europe, if you have "civil servant" status (in Germany, Beamter; in France, fonctionnaire), you never have to suffer consequences for doing things wrong, or doing them badly. You are there for life.