The Enemies Within Our Education system
Education Unions (the N.E.A.), School Administrators and Yes - Even Some Teachers
Posted on 05/31/2010 6:39:51 PM PDT by nickcarraway
Education is too important to be left in the hands of government.
“experts who say experience and effectiveness don’t always go hand in hand”
Can one say “teachers unions”. The unions make it harder to get rid of the goof balls early on.
>> seniority rights
Hmmm... I missed the enumeration of those “rights” in my cursory reading of the Constitution.
I guess they emanated (faintly) from some penumbra, and my eyesight *is* fading, I admit that...
Let me know when they grant Cleveland students Competency Rights (i.e. their right to have competent teachers teaching them).
Yes, it would be nice, but don’t look for it to happen until a few of them are fired by the School Boards to get the point across.
We’re insolvent. Where do we get the money? Raise taxes? That’s a joke.
I do worry however that since I have been teaching for 28 yeas, they would not hesitate to get rid of me in a NY minute because of budget constraints.
How ridiculous! What sort of a "right" is this?
The Enemies Within Our Education system
Education Unions (the N.E.A.), School Administrators and Yes - Even Some Teachers
That's something I wouldn't want on my resume.
My complaint (and that of my son,13) is that the curriculum is all about teaching to the test.
Most education administrators were originally teachers who were Peter Principled into administration.
Shut down the administration buildings of the school systems, and make sure not one of those things inside ever gets inside a classroom again.
Since we do not have a spiral curriculum we do a one week review of material covered from past years.
I wouldn't call that teaching to the test, just refreshing their memory.
If the test is a good measure of what the student should master for the year, what’s wrong with “teaching to the test”? You cannot have content-free or structure-free education in a school setting. That is axiomatic. So, “teaching to the test” is a good thing.
“If the test is a good measure of what the student should master for the year, what’s wrong with “teaching to the test”? You cannot have content-free or structure-free education in a school setting. That is axiomatic. So, “teaching to the test” is a good thing.”
It depends on how you teach to a test. If your class is nothing but preparation to fill out bubble sheets and never teaches you thinking skills or how to connect the dots between different bits of content then it is a problem. If students are able to learn the content in an environment that also teaches them to process it then it works.
I don’t anyone wants to discount seniority completely.
Teachers with experience are a good thing, and experience is a difficult quality to measure. Seniority isn’t necessarily the same thing, but it probably has enough correlation that it should be considered.
Plus, I can sympathize with those who are in the high income brackets of their careers not wanting to be fired purely so new hires at lower income levels can replace them for less money.
But, unions have for decades operated under the banner of “seniority uber alles”. That is the problem. Seniority trumps everything, including common sense.
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