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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]it is true that many charters have less experienced teachers however their academic credentials are typically superior.  Given enough time, many of these teachers will far outclass the typical DCPS teacher.[/quote]

Yeah, a burnt out teacher with 30 years of experience and a high school degree vs. a young creative teacher with 3 years of experience, a Master's in Education and excited to be there.

Which one do you choose?[/quote]

+1! [b]I'd want the young teacher hired in 2011, [/b]not the teacher awaiting retirement hired by DCPS under WTU in 1981. I know I'm not the only one.[/quote]

Yes, because then they can leave the year after they teach your child to go into the private sector where they will brag about their "meaningful experiences" teaching for 4 years and the next classrom can experience yet another shiny new teacher who won't stay[/quote]

Better an enthusiastic novice, than an "experienced" (old-fashioned programmed) burnout.  Any day![/quote]

[b]The excellent teachers that I had as a child in the public schools generally had decades of experience,[/b] so I don't think it's an either or situation.

I've never understood these "corporatizing reformers" who want better teachers, but want to pay them less. Basic freshman economics says that if you want to attract a better applicant pool, you offer a higher salary.[/quote]

The world has changed quite a lot, as has the education landscape, since back when you were in school.

There was a time when General Motors was the biggest cog in the economic engine of the United States, and over time the unions slowly dragged the competitiveness down and down and down.  So much so, that the "Japanese imports" that people made fun of in the '70s were kicking Detroit's ass by the 90's.  Unions serve no interests other than their own, and ultimately they haven't served those very well.  Such is the same with teacher's unions.

"I'll care about students when they pay union dues.  Until then, they're just grist for the mill."  (Al Shanker - Lion of the Teacher's Union)[/quote]

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