Interesting study. The LA Teacher's union called to Boycott the LA Times because of this article.... http://www.latimes.com/news/local/la-me-teachers-value-20100815,0,2695044.story Funny how scurred the Teachers Unions are: http://www.latimes.com/news/local/la-me-teachers-react-20100816,0,6701929.story SCURRED! \
Did you hear about the school in RI that fired all the teachers because they were performing so badly?
they need to stop defending bad teachers and just fucking can them like any other job. good teachers will stay but bad ones should get teh step.
It's not the teachers, it's the administrators. Every exceptional teacher I had in my life had to constantly butt heads with the principal and school board because he/she didn't fit their mold and wouldn't validate the untruths they wanted taught.
So you're saying that helping the uber-wealthy helps the economy? Maris, I'm disappointed in you. Where has my favorite little commie gone?
No, I am not. Just the opposite in fact. The mere existence of uber-wealthy citizens assures most citizens will live in squalor, and the economy will stagnate and die. For every billionaire created, thousands of families are pushed into poverty.
This is classic, even for you Maris. And that is sayin' something. I hate that billionaires never create any jobs or economy. Bill Gates, The Google Guys... nope. No jobs or economy created there.
Of course they should, but few if any school districts have an accurate way to measure a teacher's performance. The LA Times article for example, makes a huge leap here and ignores the most significant and probably only major difference between the 2 classes. The students are all Hispanic from uneducated families where the parents probably speak little or no English, so we can assume many of the children also struggle with it. Many also probably have had sporadic schooling and/or no pre-school. The "good" teacher is Hispanic. The "bad" teacher is not Hispanic. Gee, I wonder who has the edge here... In a class situation more representative of average American 5th grader (fluent in English, schooled since 4-5 years of age) my money is on the other guy. You can pretty much discard the rest of the "study" as carefully structured to obtain a pre-determined result.
