Politico has an entire article discussing the redistribution of teachers without considering a few minor possibilities.
More than a decade ago, Congress ordered states to figure out a way to distribute qualified teachers fairly, so low-income and minority children weren’t so often stuck with inexperienced and unlicensed educators.
As it turns out, they’ve done a lousy job.
Actually it’s people who don’t want to work lousy jobs. That’s something Socialist planners never seem to understand.
1. Bad schools get bad teachers because they’re bad places to work. And vice versa. Trying to force good teachers into bad schools won’t change that. It will however burn out good teachers and turn them into bad teachers.
Vice versa, bad teachers may not be that bad, they often are limited by the problems of the student body or have simply burned out.
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Im a teacher. Move me to a crappy school, and ill just quit and go somewhere else. Plenty of teaching jobs out there. They'll never get a good number of "good" teachers to go to the ghetto schools. Even if they did, they would not have much success. A large proportion of ghetto people do not appreciate education and will not respond. Why do you think wic county wants to disband wi middle and east. These schools have no chance of passing state tests so they want to spread out the population.
ReplyDeletea school is only as good as it's pta....
ReplyDeleteGive a man a fish, he'll eat for a day...The issue is teaching someone to do something for themselves when they are just given what they need they will not want to learn to do for themselves. The rampant use of social service programs designed to help people in dire need is being overburdened by those who don't want to do for themselves. How many people will learn valuable life skills or even how to get a job when they are not given such handouts. A group of parents at a school telling a teacher who's most likely spent half their salary supplying their needy children with the tools and supplies to help them learn just to go to a home that encourages deceit, laziness, theft and promotes absolutely no moral values that they need to do better for their children need to be first in line at the next spay and neuter clinic.
ReplyDeleteWicomico gives ability tests to second graders instead of achievement tests in hopes that certain subgroups will do better on tests with no math or reading. Even so, many kids show incredibly low ability, combined with no motivation or home support, but teachers are expected to get all students to show at least average performance. Don't become a teacher!
ReplyDeleteTo 5:37, can you explain where the idea came from that all kids are average or higher?
ReplyDelete8:13 There are kids and teachers in the classrooms. Low performance and low ability can never be blamed on the kids or their families since that would not be politically correct. So blame the teachers.
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