Posted on 07/01/2019 12:28:48 PM PDT by Brian Griffin
My Proposal for Teacher School Rotation
The power for Congress to mandate teacher school rotation comes from Section 5 of Amendment XIV of the Constitution and the Supreme Court decision of Brown vs. Board of Education.
I know this sort of proposal won't be popular here, but I want to keep generally sane Joe Biden in the Democratic primary race so the extreme lunatics get forced out of contention.
Joe Biden has described forced student busing as "asinine".
I suspect that Joe Biden would think it would be better to rotate teachers among schools so studious students residing in low-income areas have substantially equal educational opportunity.
It is my understanding that teacher school rotation is done to some extant in Japan, but I can't say for sure since I don't read Japanese.
A teacher rotation service area might be:
1. A city with a school district with no more than 40% Hispanic & black students
2. A rural county
3. a city and the county/counties (parish/parishes) containing its suburbs
4. a city and school districts within 10 miles of the city, or greater distance set by state law
5. cities and the county/counties (parish/parishes) containing their suburbs
6. cities and school districts within 10 miles of the cities, or greater distance set by state law
7. an area not contained in any of the above that consists of at least one school district, primarily designated under state authority, or by Amendment XIV necessity by federal judicial power.
No rotation shall be required within a possible teacher rotation service area if the NCLB 3rd grade reading scores in every school within the area have been determined to have been within 10% of each other, by classroom, within the past 731 days.
Rotations shall be by grade level and by classroom when possible and practical. A teacher in the Los Angeles Unified School District who taught 3rd grade in the 2025-2026 school year might have to teach 3rd grade in the Beverly Hills school district in the 2026-2027 school year.
Rotations shall be subject to collection bargaining when it is compatible with Amendment XIV. Such compatibility may be ensured by federal judicial processes.
Each actively utilized classroom, shall, primarily by school and secondarily by classroom, be assigned by any rational means a quartile level of bottom fourth, top fourth, above median fourth and below median fourth.
Rotations for new teachers, and for teachers with over four years experience, when possible and practical, shall be designed to follow a pattern of above median fourth, below median fourth, bottom fourth and finally top fourth. It shall not be presumed to be practical for a teacher to have to drive more than 20 miles to work.
Teachers shall generally be subject to the compensation laws, processes and agreements in effect for the school in which they teach. However, teachers shall be fully subject to the pension laws, processes and agreements in effect for the school district in which they were hired.
Additional compensation shall be provided at the rate of at least $1 per mile of travel for each mile of travel in a day in the teacher rotation service area above the highest of:
1. the width in miles of the school district with the most pupils in the teacher rotation service area as of the date of (initial) state funding/district determination of the 2018-2019 school year,
2. any habitual (over 90 days total) commuting distance traveled by the teacher in the teacher rotation service area prior to proposal participation.
Teachers may be discharged/terminated/disciplined under the discharge/termination/discipline laws, processes and agreements in effect for the school in which they teach.
School employees with primary duties other than classroom teaching need not be rotated.
Joe Biden can use a proposal like this to successfully fight off the busing-based attacks of Kamala Harris.
Most importantly, I would expect teachers unions to fight this and reduce their contributions to Democratic candidates.
What about combat pay for the new, innocent, idealistic young teacher rotated into the inner city? Their safety matters.
Interesting idea.
But, will tactics such as this increase the educational achievements of the students in inner city schools?
People like Kamala Harris can bitch about how schools are as segregated now as when she was a child. But can we discuss the real issues involved, as to why schools with the biggest minority enrollments have such poor student achievement?
Or does she just want to bitch about it?
It’s called bus the teachers.
At face value, this seems like a recipe for chaos. I am not sure I understand what the purpose and anticipated benefit of a program like this would be.
Maybe there should be a system to train or eliminate teachers who are determined to not be doing the job.
“What about combat pay for the new, innocent, idealistic young teacher rotated into the inner city?”
My proposal generally provides for two years of experience before having to deal with lowest quartile students.
Counter proposal: Shut down all public schools. All of them. Close the Federal Department of Education. Padlock it today. Give responsibility for education back to the states.
No Federally guaranteed student loans.
No Federal grants to the states for education.
Watch the price of education plummet and the quality skyrocket
“Maybe there should be a system to train or eliminate teachers who are determined to not be doing the job.”
My proposal generally provides for about four systems.
I like out-of-the-box thinking.
But lefties will say - Oh, but the resources and privilege at “wealthy” public schools goes far beyond merely the teachers.
Nonetheless, its a good poke in the eye to everyone in the education-industrial complex
It is my understanding that teacher school rotation is done to some extant in Japan
So the Japanese system of teacher rotation wouldn’t work here because teachers in the US are employees of the local school system, with the exception of Hawaii, where I believe, they are employees of the state.
“No Federally guaranteed student loans.”
That’s a separate but important issue and should be Secretary DeVos’ primary goal.
New loan originations should certainly be curtailed.
Most of mine were called National Defense Student Loans with the idea that I would become skilled at making things like weapons for the armies Congress was empowered to raise.
In my case, the program worked as publicly explained. The amounts were modest and the loans were paid back on time.
Kindly disagree. I’m pleased to have Federal government far away from my local school district. Control should be local, to the maximum extent possible.
I work hard to enable my kids to go to a good school. We have teachers that over time develop a track record. We know them, and over time they may end up knowing our family. To arbitrarily say, it’s been X years, time to move on wouldn’t serve my kid or their school.
If this sounds selfish, it is. I’m paying for their services. I chose to live in a very good neighborhood, at a burdensome expense. It’s worth it.
As an alternative I’d recommend this: Provide the ‘bad’ schools with better incentives for the teachers. Provide them more resources to deal with unruly kids. I’d rather invest in helping these kids become educated than simply replace the teacher.
As a HS student in the early 80’s I observed the damage busing did to my school and the neighborhood. It’s not exaggeration to use the word damage. Moving the kids wasn’t the answer, and I’m not convinced simply moving the teacher would do any better.
Respectfully, there IS NO WAY to keep Joe Biden in this race.
His brain is FRIED. He is going to be the next public figure announcing his dementia-forced retirement. Based on what we saw there is no way he powers through till next November.
His party is in the grips of rabid fire-breathing moonbat Communists who want no part of an old white guy who has been less than 100% authentically Bolshevik in his career.
The other 793 announced candidates are all Alinsky fans and have no qualms about using those tactics to kneecap Joe.
It almost makes me feel sorry for him. Almost.
What make you think the issue is teacher quality? Perhaps it’s a lack of motivation in the students/parents.
The writer appears to think Mr. Biden actually gives a hoot about ordinary school children. IMHO he doesn’t, unless it’s young girls for him to grope and sniff. I’ve known a number of Delawareian men. Most were as racially biased as any deep South people were back in the bad old days, as was Biden.
Terrible idea. Florida has the worst schools in the country and one reason is they rotate principals every year. Get a good principal in a bad school, fixes it. Leaves and new principal destroys everything gained. So dumb. Plus teachers are on year to year contracts until 10 years. Not good. Big teacher shortages. On the flip side, Florida has a top university system. Go figure.
I never understood this. Really a good teacher could have a book, chalk board, 40 students and be the best teacher in the country. Goodies don’t equal good schools. Proven everywhere daily.
I am sorry about your experience. When Harris reignited this issue at the debate several people talked about how busing seriously impacted them in very negative ways. Several said their parents enrolled them in private school.
The problems really begin when you bus kids who have NO parental support and no value for the importance of education in their home to an area where education is highly valued. It hurts both sides. Like it or not, school districts are funded with taxpayer dollars and no one wants
high taxes with no returns on education.
As a teacher in an F rated district I see the effects of a chaotic home life every day. The teachers probably spend over 1/2 the day on discipline problems.
Really a good teacher could have a book, chalk board, 40 students and be the best teacher in the country. Goodies don’t equal good schools.
Exactly!!!!! Even I used to read a book a month. Today my reading comes from internet scanning articles and blogs. Not great but at this point doesn’t matter as much. With kids....horrific.
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