"When schoolchildren start paying union dues, that's when I'll start representing the interests of school children." -- Al Shanker, former President of the American Federation of Teachers
I think the main problem these “teachers” if they are worthy of the name, is they have to cheat so their favorite students (Black and Latino) do better on the exams.
A whole bunch have been caught cheating recently.
I’ll bet they’ll next change the paper-grading pens from red to purple; oh, wait...
Goal of Teachers Unions:
1 - Maximize teachers pay
2 - Minimize their actual hours worked
3 - Reduce their actual workload
4 - Eliminate accountability
5 - Institute strict work rules so that more union teachers are needed to do the same amount of work
No surprise. If I failed every test intended to show whether I was doing my job I would certainly be anti-testing.
I think you might want to take a look at your curriculum, if this is true.
Such a disconnect with reality.
So we are not going to test: pharmacists, pilots, police, CPAs, bus drivers etc. Because we have set expectations too low?
in other words they only want to test the children on what they are teaching... (ie. global warming lies, info about MLK, the glories of the gay lifestyle, and the evil of religion and gun ownership)
It's not FAIR! to test the students on reading, writing, and math!
lol
Just so we remember, testing was introduced because dimwit public educators were graduating tons who people who were illiterate. The students had no body of knowledge they were taught. They were indoctrinated in all things anti-american and stupid.
However, I have to admit, reform did little to improve some liberal schools. With the union, they progressed to cheating on the tests to hide their incompetence. They cheated on teacher competency tests too, that were introduced to address the problem of illiterate teachers.
I say trade in testing for private school vouchers. Get rid of the expensive, incompetent monopoly.
We want to stop this “testing” thing because it reveals the kids that might be losers, and that’s not fair. Everybody is a winner. That self esteem crap and all.