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Politics : Sharks in the Septic Tank -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Lane3 who wrote (6768)	2/27/2001 6:02:28 PM
From: TimF	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 82486

The first market mechanism we should use is competitive salaries for good teachers. I think that is a good idea but then the question becomes how do we decide who is a good teacher. I think people can frequently recognize good teaching but its harder to make some sort of system to evaluate this. Tim

To: Lane3 who wrote (6768)	2/27/2001 6:12:56 PM
From: Mac Con Ulaidh	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 82486

Add a little respect from the community to that salary and we might really have something. It really galls me that teachers have become the scapegoats of parental and societal failures. Mostly parental failures. I find it hard to be nice on the subject of students who disrupt class being blamed on a teacher, when it is okayed by the parent. I find it hard to be nice on the subject of a teacher being blamed for a child not being able to read when they reached school not know their ABC's and having the beginnings of the ability to read given to them by their parents. Most backhill people who are illiterate, or close to it, know the problem is them, not the teachers. They just hope their kids have the extra something to be able to learn from bad starting point. No literate person should place the onus on the teacher. That's bull. Literacy starts at home. Talk about whining and blaming someone else. People on welfare ain't got nothin' on literate middle-class folks when it comes to blaming teachers for their own failures. hehe. that's my rant for the day. I'll get off the box now.