JOEL ENGEL: SHUT UP, THEY EXPLAINED.

It is all but impossible to fire even the worst teachers if they’re members of United Teachers Los Angeles and work in the L.A. Unified School District. The union that spends millions on radio and TV ads telling you that more funding is needed “for our students” has forced the cash-strapped district to spend $3.5 million over the last 10 years “trying to fire just seven of the district’s 33,000 teachers for poor classroom performance.” Of those, “only four were fired, during legal struggles that wore on, on average, for five years each. Two of the three others were paid large settlements, and one was reinstated. The average cost of each battle is $500,000.”

So it’ll be interesting to see how vigorously UTLA stands behind the three Wadsworth Elementary School teachers accused not of poor performance but of political incorrectness.

Unreliably, would be my guess.