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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Absolutely this is a concern for me. High teacher and administrator turnover is inherent to the "free market" model of charter schools, which is based in large part on breaking teacher's union and ending tenure. If I had to chose between a crappy inbounds and charter I would go charter. But if there is a decent DCPS option, I will go for that any time, specifically for reasons of stability and connection to the neighborhood. [/quote]

Why are you lumping all charters into your assessment?[/quote]

Name me a charter that provides teacher tenure, plus at or above-market pay and benefits, and then I won't lump them together. [/quote]

Tenure is important (but still dying) for university professors, do they can be academically free to pontificate and theorize.  There is no place for it in grade school.[/quote]

Look, teachers are always going to be somewhat underpaid relative to the importance of their job. But I would like them to be paid well enough so that we can keep at least some good ones long term. Pay and benefits are especially important to attract and retain teachers in an expensive urban area like DC. Personally, for my kid's teachers, I aspire for a bit better working conditions than a [b]free-market race to the bottom [/b]and high-pressure "data driven" reviews, as if they were insurance salesmen being compensated for all the sales they make! One way to get to the kind of stability and decent pay I think the profession deserves is unions amd tenure. I am open to other ways, if you know of any.
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It appears you don't understand the free market very well.  One point of data-driven evaluations is that excellent teachers shall be recognized, and rewarded.  The compensation package is improved for the performers, not for the tenured (a ridiculous concept in this day and age, but especially so for elementary school).[/quote]

I meant exactly what I said. I am all for rewarding the excellent teachers, but not at the price of destabilizing the profession and making them compete as if they were trying to make partner at a law firm. I also dispute the whole notion that he whole focus should be on supposedly excellent teachers as indicated by test scores. All teachers should be very GOOD and well trained and supported.[/quote]

The private sector (notoriously higher performing than the public sector) is expected to perform well or be shown the door.  Why do government employees assume they shouldn't do the same?  [/quote]

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