If I don’t perform well, I lose clients.
Screw the unions.
“Americans seem to be rallying around a demand for education reform.”
....more and more they’re paracticing their own method of ‘reform’....home schooling!
Local middle school had an 86 year old teacher who’d been teaching for over 60 years. It was to the point where she would zone out in the middle of class, fall asleep, just stop talking in the middle of a lesson to sit down and rest, and the list goes on. She blamed it on the myriad medications she was taking. Parents started to complain, and the PTA meetings were getting contentious with the staff defending her while the parents sat astonished that there was an 86 year old woman teaching their kids, and not doing a very good job at that.
Long story short, when confronted with it by the Super, the principal said that she was a valuable asset, and she would not be fired despite all of the allegations and having to have an occasional “minder” in the room with her.
She died over last summer after teaching for all that time, but she was never fired.
Crist vetoed a bill that would’ve made it easier to fire underperforming teachers. The libs don’t like this since it quashes the power of yet another union.
*spit*
I’ll be homeschooling my kids, thanks.
Home school or private schools. If parents want to send their kids to private schools, they should be able to deduct the costs. As it is now, if they use private schools, they pay twice.
Amazing, coming from Leonard Pitts. How soon before he’s accused of being racist?
On the flip side, in some places the battle to reach children who are aged way out of grade and where neither parent or child is interested in the education part can be a daunting task. I wonder how many dissenters can claim that as an issue.
Allow teachers to be fired; allow merit pay for good teachers.
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Get rid of government schools and mandatory school attendance.
Wanna send your kid to school? Pay for it.