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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]then find a way to measure improvement if the baseline is horrible.  bottom line, it makes no sense for taxpayers to pay for step raises year after year for bad teachers.  just because you are a 25 year cynical veteran of a dysfunctional school system does not mean you are any good.  I'd rather keep young teachers for short 5-year terms before they burn out.

TEACHER UNIONS ARE THE ENEMY!  Come on, they are.  You know it, I know it.  Public education is crippling for these inner cities kids.  The families need more choices, and the schools need more competition.  [/quote]

No, they need to run the school system in its entirety in a smarter way.  If you are supportive of your employees, they perform well.  That's a proven outcome over any employment model.   Everyone is getting bogged down in minor details, when they should be looking at the system as a whole.   [/quote]

hahahahhahahahahahahahha. Stupid. You obviously don't know public school teachers. Anyway people who earn up to $150k striking on national TV is great footage for the election. Obama, call your people. [/quote]

I don't know any public school teachers making $150k, and I've been a public school teacher for over a decade.  I've worked in one of the best performing school districts in the country and sent hundreds of my students off to Ivy League schools, and I can tell you that the schools with the best working conditions get the best teachers.  We're not in it for the money, but it is an insult not to increase our pay to keep up with inflation and reflect our growing expertise as we go from novice teachers to 10+ years of experience.

A lot of the public thinks that teachers don't get better with experience, but I can tell you that even the most brilliant novice teachers, like Teach for America teachers, learn a lot on the job and get better with experience.  When you aren't in schools day after day year after year you don't see the growth that happens over time.  You also don't see the work that teachers put in before and after school or the difference between a lesson taught the first time and the same lesson taught the third or fourth time.

We all know that with the cost of fuel, food and (in places like Chicago) housing housing going up, not giving teachers a raise is the same thing as cutting their pay.  We need to pay teachers enough so that they can raise and educate their own kids.[/quote]

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