BTW, I had a career in the private sector for years...this is a second career...I’ve never made as little unless you count my first job, and have never felt what I was doing was more important.
We all know there are lousy workers out there, and of course the NEA has been protecting the bad ones for ages. Many of us go into a private school...not because the money is better (most of the time, it isn’t...no tax money, and no union) but because we believe what we are doing is critical for the world.
Now, I don’t know how this guy is going to measure “success”, but if he is going to apply the capitalist idea of better pay for better performance, this forum should support this. What we are ALL skeptical about is whether they will properly assess “work performance.”
As for privatizing...GOOD teachers love merit pay...for the public schools, the unions will NEVER allow it.
Hopefully, my private school will implement a master teacher program next year.
That seems to be what the guy is trying to do. You'll notice he's been running his own company for a while now, and seems to be trying to apply some of those ideas to this charter school.
I'm amazed at some of the kneejerk reactions here, by people who obviously didn't read much more than the title of the article.