Bosses, have I got an idea for you: Don't pay your best employees more, don't ease out your least productive workers, and for crying out loud, never fire anyone, not even for the most blatant misconduct on the job.I did all three when I was in business, some more than once.
Absolutely necessary!
Liberals have been killing schools since the 1960s.
Looking forward to next weeks column :)
School district administrations and teacher's unions are a joke.
The people managing these organizations are ex-Teachers that never wanted to teach in the first place...and found themselves a position that pays more while they do less.
School districts need to be dissolved (in my old po-dunk town the Superindendent is paid 200K plus benis, for what?)Just have an overall Federal oversight system (audit committee) and let individual schools stand on their own accord.
You mean you did pay your best employees more and you did fire people for misconduct?
JOhn Stossel had an awesome segment on 20/20 last week. One in which he had Jesse Jackson Jr. It was about hypocites who refuse to vote for school vouchers, yet attended private schools themselves and send their own kids to private schools as well. Jesse Jackson Jr.'s answer to Stossel's question? "I send my kids to private schools because I can afford it."
Stossel didn't let up either, he really stuck it to him. It was great. John Stossel and Brit Hume may be the only "media men" I can trust at all.
The sooner, the better.
Close them all down.
There are graphs showing the growth of the teachers union from the late sixties compared with the dropping of scores, they match almost perfectly.
Including the use of tense.
Corrected, it should read:
The prospect of taking education courses deters the best students from becoming teachers. Many of these courses teach nonsense and the only way to get through them is to turn off your brain and regurgitate what the teacher wants to hear. Ironically, only those who demonstrate the capacity to absorb and parrot nonsense are considered qualified to teach.
"Bastion of Capitalism" ping.
ANOTHER REDUNDANT HEADLINE.
The rot is even deeper. There is another monopoly that has to be broken before the public schools can be fixed: colleges of education.
Most of the several states have granted monopolies on school teaching (sometimes even in private schools) to the products of these specialized schools. Remember 'ed majors'? For every dedicated, smart, committed young person who choses to major in education because of a yearning to teach, there are twenty who are either math-phobic airheads who 'love children', or who picked the major because it was the easiest, most content-free way to get a bachelor's degree available.
The states have given a monopoly to these folk. Bizarrely, I'm not 'qualified' to teach calculus to high school students in a high school, with a Ph.D. in mathematics and twenty-five plus years of classroom experience, but I'm qualified to teach it to college freshmen (often of the same age thanks to different state school-entry age cutoff dates) or to high schoolers who get permission to take university courses, in which case, my course counts toward high school graduation.
Break the colleges-of-ed monopoly, break the teachers' union, and then, and only then, raise teacher salaries to attract good people to the profession.