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?
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.
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
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.
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.
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.
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.