[quote=CA renter]The goal of this change is to create a divide in the unions: older teachers vs. newer teachers. The unions are under heavy attack, and too few people know about the people who are behind these attacks and what their ultimate goals are. One thing I can say for sure, is that workers of all stripes are being targeted; it’s not just the union members.[/quote]
The problem and my initial gut feel from reading both your posts is that you make it sound like doing nothing is better than trying to do anything. You sound like a teacher that will get bounced and even though I believe you aren’t in that profession now, it just has a tone that any attempt to fix anything will not work no matter what we do.
Everything is big business motivated and we’re all sheep for trying to boot bad teachers. Bad teachers do no one any good and if it’s good teachers vs. bad teachers, we should all rejoice. Maybe like with corporations, teachers can share a salary/bonus pool so bad teachers who no one likes and is ineffective will get voted out.
I suppose like with healthcare, I think we have a broken system and maybe changes to tenure laws, evaluation by honest parents, who knows, something else is worth a shot to “try”.
I didn’t see a solution yet, but maybe teachers can be evaluated a year out or half a year in the next grade?
If the kid learned stuff, obviously, no matter how much the parents/kids hated the teacher, they did a good job maybe.
Again, let’s go in a dialog to fix things rather than throw our hands up saying nothing we do will help…that’s what I got at least reading the 2 posts.
