>>This teacher was then caught cheating on the state student achievement tests.
>>Here is the long drawn out process that followed:
>>* She was fired.
>>* Immediately.
>>She was not reprimanded.
>>She was not transferred to another school.
>>This could not happen with the strong teachers unions in California.
>
>If she was fired immediately, I have a problem with that. Where's her due process? If you mean she was fired after being convicted, that's different and appropriate.

This was employment - not a court.
She was an employee and does not have any "rights" to the job.

In California, the principal would have been afraid of the union blowback and would have almost certainly let it slide.
Coddling substandard teachers is a union thing - and the bad teachers inevitably concentrate in poor, often minority, neighborhoods.

A substandard education cannot be fixed later with affirmative action.