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Originally Posted by Atticus Grinch
A good friend was S.C. Teacher of the Year. She got to drive a BMW Z3 for a year, and Strom Thurmond got to stare at her tits when she shook his hand. She went on to get a Ph.D. in teacher education. Now she's no longer in education.
Think of all the non-relatives you know who make $60,000/year. Now think of how many of them to whom you'd entrust your child. The intersection of those two sets is "teacher," and we're doing pretty fucking good with what we have, considering the very low quality of some of the raw materials -- about the same number of people graduate H.S. capable of reading as every previous year. The nations that perennially beat us in math/science assessments are ones that leave their crack babies chained to rocks.
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as a parent, I for one think most pub ed is fine. you mix in a bit of parent involvement, cross your fingers for drug use to be limited to leafy shit that burns, and you move em out to college.
I am very concerned about schools in poor areas that don't have the parental involvement. this is the true problem since we cripple tons of kids every year.
but I was only posting because big brain bothered to post something where a guy compared someone's incentive plan to a "salesman of the month" where the best teacher gets picked for dollars. this is so clearly a pablum for the teacher's unions and, unless the proposed plan in question was written in crayon, beneath any thinking person's garbage filter.
As to performance incentives, truth is the 50 "best teachers" in most states, under many standards, will all likely be in schools that don't need help anyway.
and as to your friend, when I think of her, and I want to, I'll need to know hair color and what she looked for in deciding which students to fuck. please reply and be mindful of the 3 hour time difference.
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