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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]The biggest problem for teachers is their spokesman.  Whenever someone comes out publicly "speaking for the teachers" is is usually a union charlatan claiming [b]it's unfair to  use performance as a measure of success. [/b] To the multitudes in the non-government world, where pay for performance is the norm, it makes the profession look bad.

They also tend to "circle the wagons" when a truly bad teacher is identified and make it hard to fire them, thus hurting the masses that have to carry them.

I know a lot of primary teachers (and I've been a teacher of college classes for 25 years), they are generally great and don't agree with these fools but they still represent the public face of an honorable profession.[/quote]

Let me know when you figure out how to measure the performance of teachers properly. Until then, you're using "performance" as a measure, and that actually is unfair. As for pay for performance being the norm -- well, the norm obviously doesn't apply to CEOs.

(I am not a teacher.)[/quote]

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