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Politics : View from the Center and Left
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To: Bread Upon The Water who wrote (116574)7/26/2009 11:27:47 AM
From: Steve Lokness  Read Replies (2) of 542243
 
I'm all for teachers unions--its the only thing that gives teachers any respect any more

In Washington State leaders are trying to make some real progressive changes - including paying teachers on how well they do - and are stopped at every turn by the union. My rural town has one school district and that district, like all of them in this economic downturn, faces real hardships. One way to make ends meet was to give all employees a day off without pay. All except teachers - they wouldn't go along. That's bull! Unions don't give teachers respect - they turn people against teachers and that is as wrong as it gets. Unions main achievment is to protect awful teachers.

What happens if you grade teachers on class performance, at least in underperforming schools, is that teachers will leave those schools as soon as they can and those schools will have a constant churn of staff.

Oh come on. The teachers would be compared in their own school - not in some school across the state that has an entire different make-up of kids. The problem with underperfomring schools is that they get bad teachers that just stay there. Give the teachers an incentive to turn those schools around.

In other words just because its free money doesn't mean this is a good idea.

You sound like Sanford. Great, give your money back and we'll take it in Washington State.

steve
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