Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Will making teacher evaluations public encourage or discourage highly-qualified people from going into teaching?

Also: I am a public employee (not a teacher). My evaluations are not public.

This is America. We say we value education, but then we show rampant disrespect to teachers and basically do everything possible to ensure that highly-qualified people won't go into education.

yes

20+ year vet
My own children know NOT to enter education or else they'll be paying for their own college tuition.

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Brilliant minds should be shaping the youth. But there is so little respect for what we do that it's the idiot who stays these days.

The answer to the topic is NO.

Assuming that the evaluation data is accurate (and that is a big assumption), can you imagine the problems a principal would have assigning classes?