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.
Your idea is horrible and won’t work. NYC already has a rotating pool of teachers, most of whom lost their regular positions when their school closed. The students view them as “subs” and will not accord them any respect or do any work for them. It is a hardship on the teachers to have to learn the cultures of different schools. The rotating teachers don’t get perks like parking stickers, which obligates them to park far from the school. They don’t get a place to put their stuff. They can’t put their own touch on the classroom, simply using what’s already there. It’s hard on students not to have continuity. And you don’t give teachers any job security in what is a difficult situation, adding greatly to what is already a stressful situation.
I think a bigger reason it works in Japan and would not here is the culture.
Public schools cannot be reformed. People who actually care about their children have removed them from the public schools already. The rest make up the Socialist Future of the country and grow up to be interchangeable cogs in the Social machine.
Exactly, but they can be "repurposed" into private schools, charter schools, etc.
Also, in the US, it seems that some school systems are run by the CITY, and some by separate school boards. I think Chicago Public Schools are actually run through the mayor’s office (but could be wrong).
My personal feeling is that the mayor’s office should not be concerning itself with the operation of the schools in any way.
. Conscripting public school teachers into bad schools will collapse many struggling school systems.
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and that is a bad idea??
I think a bigger reason it works in Japan and would not here is the culture.
This is a story I’d tell my jr. high colleagues.
My wife and I visited a rural school in Shikoku, Japan. It was a 3-story K-8 school. The day we visited, all of the staff were in the language lab (of course they had one) evaluating a teacher. All of the rest of the classes were unsupervised. We walked through the school, opening doors to find kids doing their work. There was no sudden movement when we opened the door. We went to an art class where 8th graders were wood carving with very sharp tools. There was no blood to be seen. When people say that Jr High kids are nuts because of ‘hormones’, I tell them this story. I’m pretty sure Japanese kids have hormones too, but they are expected to control themselves. Culture.
Can’t imagine that here even in the most bucolic of American places.
The elephant in the room is culture and family background. My leftist, blue, NE city spends $23K per year, each, on inner city students, yet half of them never graduate. TPTB could triple that amount and nothing would change. The left has destroyed the black family, and their great lies they promote is are 1) that the Left isn't responsible for it, and 2) somehow America is too cheap and racist to spend more.
Has any public school system truly collapsed?
Now that I think about it, yes. It generally merges with an adjoining school district - not necessarily better, but with more taxpayers paying into the system it just takes longer to collapse again.
I took the OP as not being literal. If teachers had been bused instead of the students in the 1970’s, we would be having a different conversation today.
Ridiculous. Insofar as we have government schools, local districts should be able to hire whomever they want and those who want to work for a particular school district ought to be able to work there however long they are wanted.
Teachers are bad enough as it is, we don’t need some sort of bureaucratically mandated monstrosity chasing more good teachers away.
There is absolutely no reason at all for taxpayers to be in the student loan (or grant) business. If poor would-be college students are only marginal students, unable to attract private grants, they should pay their way as they go through a community college system, then if appropriate on to a state college for a four-year degree, and then if appropriate beyond that, on to grad school. Taking two classes a semester for three semesters a calendar year, such a student can graduate debt-free with a standard bachelor’s degree in five years and one semester. Less than the six years by which four-year schools now count their graduates as timely.
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