SCHOOL LAW2
The article talks about the choices made by parents while they admit their children in
a particular school along with the choices that a school makes while hiring a teacher. The
article talks on behalf of a teacher who seeks employment before a school and faces the
different criteria and policies before being recruited by the school authority. It is being
pointed out that in many cases, the school authorities are not directly responsible for
recruiting teachers, rather they are often recruited by different committees and offices, who
are often biased to a particular community, religion, race or even gender (Glenn, 2002). More
often seniority and better academic background becomes a criteria for being chosen for
employment under the American School System. The author says that it is discouraging for
him to seek improvement in urban schools in Massachusetts in respect to the recruitment of
skilled teaching staff due to the arduous recruitment procedure. The author points about the
easier recruitment policy of the charter schools that are free to directly recruit teachers,
thereby making it more comfortable for teachers to work at such school where they are given
the freedom to give perspective to their thoughts and opinions (Glenn, 2002). However, the
charter school are often said to be bound to recruit state-certified teachers and non-teaching
staffs only, which again puts an obstacle before the schools in recruiting candidates of their
choice and need. This could be summed up as the difference in freedom of choosing teaching
staff of different types of educational institutions.
The author has drawn comparison of schools under the American system and their
recruitment policies with that of schools in Belgium, Canada, Denmark, France, Netherlands
and New Zealand (Glenn, 2002). He has pointed out that the non-governmental schools in
Belgium are funded by the government and hence are required to recruit teachers having the
same qualification of a tea her in public school. It is also pointed out in the article that most
catholic schools over the above mentioned nations prefer to appoint catholic teachers. This is

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