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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]This paper is pretty much on the money:

[quote]They describe what they are experiencing as
a process in which, piece by piece, they are
being told what to do and how to do it by
people who are not teachers and have little
respect for teachers or the work that teachers
do. They see policymakers embracing
one nostrum after another that their own
professional experience tells them will not
work. They know that the real motivation
behind the vogue for teacher evaluation
is to fire teachers who are deemed to add
insufficient value to a student’s education,
but they think that tests used for that
purpose measure very little of what they
think a good education is and even less of
what a good teacher does for the students
under his or her care.27[/quote]

Nurses and paramedics rarely have the same long term relationship with their charges that teachers have.  Teachers who stay in teaching, despite the low pay, stay because they feel appreciated and because they feel they are making a difference.  Once they are made to feel insignificant, the money is not enough to keep them there.  Unless, of course, you have a teacher who really doesn't care.  Those kinds will not speak out and will probably stick around.  
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Nurses and paramedics *literally* save lives.  But, I guess that's not important, not something we value in society.[/quote]

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