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On Wed, 05 May 2010 21:51:54 -0400, hk
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I have no problem with separating these kids out for additional
attention and special remedial classes. That may be where more money
should actually be spent. The problem is, this would be seen as de
facto segregation and it wouldn't take a semester before the school
board was sued.
By a like token, it is hard to create programs for the brightest
students (or just the ones who have helpful families at home) because
the demographics will not usually meet muster with the deseg
agreements the school system has to abide by.


Well, then, putting the onus on teachers thusly seems like an impossible
burden. Certainly teachers are responsible for teaching with appropriate
methodology. Students and their parents are responsible for learning. If
the teachers are teaching properly, but the students and their parents
are not holding up their part of the bargain, well...you have
failure...no matter how well the teachers perform.

The real question here is teachers who simply do not perform.
You can have a three time golden apple winner who is making
significantly less than the older teacher who couldn't teach a dog to
scratch fleas.
Pay is strictly time in grade and the number of degrees you have, not
your actual teaching skill. The only real way to get fired is to sleep
with one of your students. Even then, it is not certain.
That was the reason for SB6


Yup.. this is a problem. The question is.. how does one evaluate the
teacher. That's a continuing problem.