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Anonymous wrote:Improve teacher pay in the middle of the pay scales to attract better teachers to this region. I feel like right now the teachers in FCPS are basically:

- career-changers, former SAHM types who went back to work to bring in a bit more money and because the schools have better benefits than their husband’s private company. But push comes to shove, they don’t really “need” the income. So they are reluctant to teach in person and may just quit.

- very young recent college grads originally from this area who may or may not stick with teaching long-term, or may move out of the area for better pay or cost of living.

- older teachers who have been here many years and make good money but since they’re older, they’re also reluctant to return.

In places where teachers are more well-compensated and teaching is a middle-class profession, you don’t see nearly this level of hesitancy and fear around teaching in person. They know they have good jobs, AND that people are lining up to replace them if they quit. My dad is a retired administrator in a small district in Ohio, certainly not a very rich place or anything, and kind of isolated, and they had hundreds of applicants for every job posting. I think if they offered teachers with a few years experience - not entry level or very experienced, but like the 3-15 year teachers - more money, that we could increase our teacher quality over time.

There is zero political support for paying teachers more. I do not see this happening.

Anonymous wrote:Improve teacher pay in the middle of the pay scales to attract better teachers to this region. I feel like right now the teachers in FCPS are basically:

- career-changers, former SAHM types who went back to work to bring in a bit more money and because the schools have better benefits than their husband’s private company. But push comes to shove, they don’t really “need” the income. So they are reluctant to teach in person and may just quit.

- very young recent college grads originally from this area who may or may not stick with teaching long-term, or may move out of the area for better pay or cost of living.

- older teachers who have been here many years and make good money but since they’re older, they’re also reluctant to return.

In places where teachers are more well-compensated and teaching is a middle-class profession, you don’t see nearly this level of hesitancy and fear around teaching in person. They know they have good jobs, AND that people are lining up to replace them if they quit. My dad is a retired administrator in a small district in Ohio, certainly not a very rich place or anything, and kind of isolated, and they had hundreds of applicants for every job posting. I think if they offered teachers with a few years experience - not entry level or very experienced, but like the 3-15 year teachers - more money, that we could increase our teacher quality over time.

Anonymous wrote:Go start a new thread thread about Khan Academy. It’s off topic.

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Anonymous wrote:Some thoughts on school vouchers and charter schools - I think they would signal the end to a quality public education in FFX County

I know there are success stories and charter schools which helped kids... and then there is Khan Academy whose genius I imagine was fueled by vastly underpaid college graduates whose intelligence and creativity was ably exploited by Khan. I just realized what an appropriate name that is - Khan, the conquerer, brute barbarian appropriating others’ brilliance for his own gain.

But overall, charter schools are like privatized prisons. You go down that road and America starts to get pretty corrupt and disgusting.

(Also weren’t there those charter schools in Michigan that were supposed to substitute for the public schools, but when the charters realized they couldn’t make a profit, they pulled up stakes and left a whole community with no school? Charter schools do crap like that.)

Why don't you educate yourself on the genesis of the site before spewing such nonsense.

Uh, okay? I did preface that statement with “I imagine,” Ms. Hostile Interlocutor. You could also try politely correcting my errors rather dismissing the entire post outright.

Salman Khan is a high school valedictorian, MIT double major and HBS grad who briefly worked in finance and simultaneously started making science and math videos to help his young cousin with her class work. The videos garnered such a huge audience so quickly that he left finance to create Khan Academy, which has remained a non-profit to this day.
Sal Khan himself teaches the vast majority of the video lessons on the site.

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Some thoughts on school vouchers and charter schools - I think they would signal the end to a quality public education in FFX County

I know there are success stories and charter schools which helped kids... and then there is Khan Academy whose genius I imagine was fueled by vastly underpaid college graduates whose intelligence and creativity was ably exploited by Khan. I just realized what an appropriate name that is - Khan, the conquerer, brute barbarian appropriating others’ brilliance for his own gain.

But overall, charter schools are like privatized prisons. You go down that road and America starts to get pretty corrupt and disgusting.

(Also weren’t there those charter schools in Michigan that were supposed to substitute for the public schools, but when the charters realized they couldn’t make a profit, they pulled up stakes and left a whole community with no school? Charter schools do crap like that.)

Why don't you educate yourself on the genesis of the site before spewing such nonsense.

Uh, okay? I did preface that statement with “I imagine,” Ms. Hostile Interlocutor. You could also try politely correcting my errors rather dismissing the entire post outright.

Wrong. There's a lab school now but the site came first.

Also, I believe Khan Academy was an academy before it became a website. Clearly, you have troves of information you can share with us, so I will await your enlightenment on this topic.

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Anonymous wrote:Some thoughts on school vouchers and charter schools - I think they would signal the end to a quality public education in FFX County

I know there are success stories and charter schools which helped kids... and then there is Khan Academy whose genius I imagine was fueled by vastly underpaid college graduates whose intelligence and creativity was ably exploited by Khan. I just realized what an appropriate name that is - Khan, the conquerer, brute barbarian appropriating others’ brilliance for his own gain.

But overall, charter schools are like privatized prisons. You go down that road and America starts to get pretty corrupt and disgusting.

(Also weren’t there those charter schools in Michigan that were supposed to substitute for the public schools, but when the charters realized they couldn’t make a profit, they pulled up stakes and left a whole community with no school? Charter schools do crap like that.)

Why don't you educate yourself on the genesis of the site before spewing such nonsense.

Uh, okay? I did preface that statement with “I imagine,” Ms. Hostile Interlocutor. You could also try politely correcting my errors rather dismissing the entire post outright.

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Some thoughts on school vouchers and charter schools - I think they would signal the end to a quality public education in FFX County

I know there are success stories and charter schools which helped kids... and then there is Khan Academy whose genius I imagine was fueled by vastly underpaid college graduates whose intelligence and creativity was ably exploited by Khan. I just realized what an appropriate name that is - Khan, the conquerer, brute barbarian appropriating others’ brilliance for his own gain.

But overall, charter schools are like privatized prisons. You go down that road and America starts to get pretty corrupt and disgusting.

(Also weren’t there those charter schools in Michigan that were supposed to substitute for the public schools, but when the charters realized they couldn’t make a profit, they pulled up stakes and left a whole community with no school? Charter schools do crap like that.)

Why don't you educate yourself on the genesis of the site before spewing such nonsense.

Uh, okay? I did preface that statement with “I imagine,” Ms. Hostile Interlocutor. You could also try politely correcting my errors rather dismissing the entire post outright.

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Some thoughts on school vouchers and charter schools - I think they would signal the end to a quality public education in FFX County

I know there are success stories and charter schools which helped kids... and then there is Khan Academy whose genius I imagine was fueled by vastly underpaid college graduates whose intelligence and creativity was ably exploited by Khan. I just realized what an appropriate name that is - Khan, the conquerer, brute barbarian appropriating others’ brilliance for his own gain.

But overall, charter schools are like privatized prisons. You go down that road and America starts to get pretty corrupt and disgusting.

(Also weren’t there those charter schools in Michigan that were supposed to substitute for the public schools, but when the charters realized they couldn’t make a profit, they pulled up stakes and left a whole community with no school? Charter schools do crap like that.)

Why don't you educate yourself on the genesis of the site before spewing such nonsense.

Anonymous wrote:Some thoughts on school vouchers and charter schools - I think they would signal the end to a quality public education in FFX County

I know there are success stories and charter schools which helped kids... and then there is Khan Academy whose genius I imagine was fueled by vastly underpaid college graduates whose intelligence and creativity was ably exploited by Khan. I just realized what an appropriate name that is - Khan, the conquerer, brute barbarian appropriating others’ brilliance for his own gain.

But overall, charter schools are like privatized prisons. You go down that road and America starts to get pretty corrupt and disgusting.

(Also weren’t there those charter schools in Michigan that were supposed to substitute for the public schools, but when the charters realized they couldn’t make a profit, they pulled up stakes and left a whole community with no school? Charter schools do crap like that.)