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To: slacker711 who wrote (116606)	7/26/2009 7:02:03 PM
From: Bread Upon The Water	Respond to of 542247

S: Your post gives little idea of how to actually evaluate their "ability to manage a class and teach". Peer and principal evaluations only? That has all of the bias, prejudice, and politics that you are against....and are exactly the kind of thing that a data driven analysis could balance out. Should teachers be like Supreme Court justices? Appointment for life and unless you commit a felony there is no recourse for incompetence? V: Let me think about this a while and see if I actually have any thoughts on the matter. Education is not my field so I don't have a lot of facts at my command. I was initially driven to comment by the fact that I thought it unfair to evaluate the teacher SOLELY on the the performance data of the students. I haven't given the way teachers are actually evaluated much thought.