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To: Ann Corrigan who wrote (2237)6/16/2003 10:24:34 PM
From: JohnM  Read Replies (3) of 793917
 
In fact, sadly, teachers unions today seem to protect the least competent & thereby do an injustice to their students.

I doubt it. I don't doubt that some incompetent teachers are protected by union rules. But the absence of those rules puts good teachers at the mercy of incompetent administrators. Pick your poison. If you wish to leave it to the general round of school administrators to decide who teaches well and who doesn't, I wish you luck.

As far as teachers salaries, if they would agree to testing in order to sort the wheat from the shaft and in that way improve public education, I would consider increases in salary for the most competent as money well spent.

Testing simply tests what they know, not how well they teach. If you can come up with a scheme that genuinely assesses that and avoids giving the best raises to administrative todies, then you have solved one of the great mysteries of teaching. In its absence, teachers need protections from administrative screwups.
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