New York Joins Movement to Abandon Use of Student Tests in Teacher Evaluations

New York Times ^ | February 1, 2019 | Eliza Shapiro

[EnigmaticAnomaly]

All of those suggestions sound desirable and plausible in an environment which supports the teachers and their maintenance of discipline in the classroom. The main sticking point with your proposed solution is that “x-factor” of administration not supporting teachers in classroom management directives. As it stands currently, it is nigh impossible to teach in an environment where students have very few/no repercussions for not following classroom/school rules.

Fix that one sticking point and your plan sounds like a winner!

-EA

[KC_for_Freedom]

You sir are correct and student discipline is a tough one. The problem is that the students need to see that the school process will result in something they don’t want to miss out on.

The thing I suggested that would help is a true voucher system where parents put their kids into the school that seemed to solve the education problem for the student body.

Likewise, administrators need to support the teachers because it is the staff that will make a school successful and bring annual attendance vouchers.

I have taught in schools without much discipline and teaching does suffer. The school has to have a way that removes discipline problems — maybe by forfeiting their voucher money too — so that the penalty is high. Of course
a way to ensure that this is done fairly must also be present.

So I agree, schools with few problem students (students who don’t want the benefit or perceive that they are not able to get the benefit or maybe need to be in a different environment like a trade school) need to be transferred.