State Education Commissioner Deborah Gist has announced that school districts must stop using seniority to assign teachers.  So what will happen now?  Will the best teachers be chosen for a particular position rather than the one who just happened to hang on the longest?  What a novel idea!

     The teacher's unions must love this idea, since it is being done to assure that the best teacher is chosen for the job.  After all, the most important thing to teacher's unions is the well-being of their students.  Oh wait, I forgot: The Rhode Island Federation of Teachers is planning on taking Gist's decision to court.  I guess what's best for the students isn't really the most important thing to them.  I'm shocked!