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Overpaid teachers tuning out illiterate students
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| 9/8/2015
| Mychal Massie
Posted on 09/08/2015 9:12:04 AM PDT by rktman
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One can only hope that the "comical" man on the street videos are not the the norm. Sadly, it does seem that way. Are there smart kids out there? For sure but we never hear much about them. Does kind of make the case for home schooling. Which the 'powers that be' want to eliminate. No free thinking for you! Lucky for us if uncle bernie wins, colleges and universities will be FREE. Woo Hoo! So nobody has to pay for utilities, the profs will all work for free, all the books will be free. Man it doesn't get much better than that. Probably get free ben and jerry's ice cream too. Maybe we need to change it to "free dumb" for all.
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posted on
09/08/2015 9:12:04 AM PDT
by
rktman
To: rktman
and for far too many years, far far too many “conservatives” have gone along hook line and sinker with all the “raise teacher pay” scams...not realizing that probably 20 years ago, we crossed the rubicon into over pay under perform.
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posted on
09/08/2015 9:13:30 AM PDT
by
C. Edmund Wright
(WTF? How Karl Rove and the Establishment Lost...Again)
To: rktman
So I guess that means they need more money, right?
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posted on
09/08/2015 9:14:05 AM PDT
by
TBP
(Obama lies, Granny dies.)
To: TBP
To: TBP
Well heck yeah. I mean if you REALLY want to correct the whole system. LOL!
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posted on
09/08/2015 9:15:22 AM PDT
by
rktman
(Enlisted in the Navy to protect folks rights to strip my rights. WTH?!)
To: rktman
Maybe we should pay students instead.................
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posted on
09/08/2015 9:16:03 AM PDT
by
Red Badger
(READ MY LIPS: NO MORE BUSHES!...............)
To: C. Edmund Wright
A few teachers -- very few -- probably are underpaid. The creme de la creme. The rest, judging by results, seem to be quite overpaid.
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posted on
09/08/2015 9:16:08 AM PDT
by
TBP
(Obama lies, Granny dies.)
To: rktman
Overpaid teachers tuning out illiterate students
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Yep. I know one that just retired. He is 52. I have known some that retire as young as 47.
Nice reward for a subpar performance.
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posted on
09/08/2015 9:16:53 AM PDT
by
boycott
To: rktman
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posted on
09/08/2015 9:17:35 AM PDT
by
musicman
(Until I see the REAL Long Form Vault BC, he's just "PRES__ENT" Obama = Without "ID")
To: TBP
If they were underpaid, there would be millions of teaching jobs going begging....quite the opposite is true. You have to have connections in most areas of the country to get a gig.
amazing how many so called conservatives seem to ignore supply and demand -one of the basic human nature conservatives laws of economics - when discussing teachers.
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posted on
09/08/2015 9:23:23 AM PDT
by
C. Edmund Wright
(WTF? How Karl Rove and the Establishment Lost...Again)
To: C. Edmund Wright
and for far too many years, far far too many conservatives have gone along hook line and sinker with all the raise teacher pay scams...not realizing that probably 20 years ago, we crossed the rubicon into over pay under perform.
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YUP! It’s the GOPe’ers like you that always want to fight todays battle tomorrow that lead us here... it was almost 30 years ago that the SAT was inflated to cover falling scores by making the max grade 2400 instead of 1600.
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posted on
09/08/2015 9:25:13 AM PDT
by
Neidermeyer
("Our courts should not be collection agencies for crooks." — John Waihee, Governor of Hawaii, 1986-)
To: C. Edmund Wright
As I said, the
creme de la cremme, perhaps one percent of one percent, are actually excellent enough that they're arguably underpaid.
This is why merit pay would be a good idea. Teachers who perform and deserve a raise could get it without all the incompetent, lazy ideologues who pass as teachers getting one also.
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posted on
09/08/2015 9:26:33 AM PDT
by
TBP
(Obama lies, Granny dies.)
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To: Red Badger
Actually not a bad idea, but then there would be perverse incentives to cheat the performance measuring device.
They could pay them for good test scores, but then the test givers would cheat.
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posted on
09/08/2015 9:28:27 AM PDT
by
MrB
(The difference between a Humanist and a Satanist - the latter admits whom he's working for)
To: Neidermeyer
BTW I’ve been on the right side of this issue since I was in my earlyt 20s......I know you don’t understand that kind of ahead of the curve ability, given that you don’t have it and resent it in me.
See you in 20 years....where I am today.
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posted on
09/08/2015 9:29:02 AM PDT
by
C. Edmund Wright
(WTF? How Karl Rove and the Establishment Lost...Again)
To: Neidermeyer
For the most part “educators” are over paid and under worked. Test scores continue downward while they complain about their benefits. Clowns.
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posted on
09/08/2015 9:30:20 AM PDT
by
hal ogen
(First Amendment or Reeducation Camp?)
To: rktman
Its amazing to think that there were better education outcomes in decades past.
For example, Dunbar High School in Washington DC was a prominent black high school back in the days when DC had legally segregated schools. Today its just another ghetto school.
At one time, people wanted to live in New York City because of the reputation and quality of the NY public school system.
In rural America, some places had the proverbial one room schoolhouse. Yet students learned to read and write.
And has the state of public education improved since Jimmy Carter created the Department of Education???
To: Neidermeyer
I took the SAT in 1997, and it was still 1600 max score.
To: TBP
A few teachers -- very few -- probably are underpaid. The creme de la creme. The rest, judging by results, seem to be quite overpaid. I agree.
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posted on
09/08/2015 9:34:40 AM PDT
by
samtheman
(2014: Voters elect Repubs to congress... 2015: Repubs defund NOTHING... 2016: Trump/(Cruz or Palin))
To: rktman
Something to consider. According to deToqueville America’s literacy rate was higher BEFORE we had public schools.
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posted on
09/08/2015 9:35:13 AM PDT
by
wastoute
(Government cannot redistribute wealth. Government can only redistribute poverty.)
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