When Should a Teacher Retire?
#spacer{clear:left}#abc #sidebar{margin-top:1.5em}zSB(3,3)”At what age should a teacher retire” was the question on ISED-L recently. So I did a Google search on “teacher retirement age”. The search results are almost entirely British and Canadian. Why? Because those countries actually have mandatory retirement ages. Generally teachers are expected to retire between 60-65 years old. So, what about American teachers? Well, they can retire whenever they want to. They just have to be able to do the job. It’s against the law to use age as a benchmark for measuring somebody’s ability to do the job. If your school accepts Federal funds, then the situation gets really tricky. I’m not an attorney and I didn’t sleep in a Holiday Inn Express. So seek expert advice and help formulating your school’s faculty retirement policy. While you are at it, read Do You Have Enough Lia
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