It also includes education. My wife has a Masters. That, combined with her years of experience, made her too expensive for most districts. Their loss.
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That's because most of that change would only make things worse.
You hate America, asswipe.
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That "one size fits all education model" is what people like you are pushing.
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I guess it's much easier to sit back and complain about the abstract idea that we don't "fully fund" our schools as an excuse to do nothing.
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I'll bite. Please explain
Except that teachers put in more work during that 3/4 of a year than you do in 2. Plus they usually spend their summers getting ready for the next year.
Actually. most corporations don't care about the "best" talent. They, almost universally, want the cheapest talent that can pretend to get the job done.
That's a part of the problem, that's for sure. And the teachers, who retire and are rehired as administrators, etc....you might be surprised at the number of those double dippers...there's so much money wasted....
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Yep. The last principal that my wife worked for got the position because she was the super's wife's best friend. My wife was way more qualified than she was, which I've always felt was probably what got my wife fired from that position.
Of course, you wouldn't want administrators with actual experience.That's a part of the problem, that's for sure. And the teachers, who retire and are rehired as administrators, etc....you might be surprised at the number of those double dippers...there's so much money wasted....
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If she has any plans to go for a Masters, warn her to be sure that she's already in a district that she wants to remain in, because being more qualified makes it more difficult to find a job teaching.
Whoops! I see I'm already too late with that advice.
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Of course, not exactly something that Jobs knows anything about.
The right is not big on reality. Neither extreme is.
There's no good way to evaluate a teacher's performance. When they try that with standardised tests, they score the teacher based on the students' absolute score, not the improvement from the previous year. Thus a 5th grade teacher whose students averaged a 4th grade level would be downgraded, even though most of her class tested at a 2nd grade level the year before. A two grade improvement would mean that she did an outstanding job, but that's not how they grade the test results.
Right wingers are, generally, not capable of having adult conversations.
Except that most school boards have no interest in attracting the best talent.
How does "618 metro areas" equate to "20 major US cities"?
That's why they're trashing you. The right can't deal with facts.
School boards will never go for that. That's why we have teachers' unions. Because of the school boards.
Seems to me as if local control is often part of the problem, as the local school boards often have other priorities than education.