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[quote=Anonymous]The problem when you're working with people is that they are not widgets. There are so many variables and what makes one teacher successful with a certain population would never work with a different population.

How would you measure the success rate of these teachers? Would you take into account that one works in a Title One school which has extremely different challenges than the one working in Potomac? Would you give every one of these teachers a homogenous group of students in schools with the exact same demographics? That doesn't happen in the real world. Otherwise how do you know to attribute their success or failure to their stellar education?

By OP's logic, the most highly trained doctor or nurse should never  have a single fatality on their caseload except those who are over the age of 80. Too much is outside of their control to guarantee that. No one faults doctors or nurses when patients fail to follow their instructions, which is outside of their control, right? But we fault teachers for things outside of their control every damn day. [/quote]

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