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While there isnt an employment for life in the EU there is a common system whereas a DT has one year of probation and then gets tenure or some other civil service designation, which in most of the US and in the UK is very different.

While I agree with @sid that there are leadership who have a reputation as hired guns/hatchet men my experience is that US leadership are more often to see dismissal as an early remedy but UK leadership tend to be harsher in their determination and execution.

I agree with Heliotrope.
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Interesting. I worked at an American school for the past six years, and there was always at least one person let go for rather innocuous reasons. I do think there is a rather tenuous relationship between the power that comes with leadership and the levels of unjustified intoxication that power can cause. In a state with a good union, it’s hard to let a teacher go. But in a private school overseas? Oh, the power! The POWER!

Many parts of the EU have equally strong union relationships that make letting an IT go after a certain period as equally if not more difficult than in the US.

After I originally posted this, the school down the road just sacked the majority of their staff or else they had to give them permanency. Yes, it was an all-American school.