News, Ridiculous perks for teachers? (educators, babysitters, class, professor)
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great! give people an incentive to go to work sick, and spread more germs around, as if schools aren't already brick-and-mortar petri dishes! maybe if this district paid its subs more, they'd get better ones, and wouldn't have to worry about the students missing time with qualified teachers. if you pay for glorified babysitters, that's all you can expect to get.
i had that feeling when the administrator in the video repeated the phrase "highly qualified" about a dozen times. when they start quoting manuals, you know you're in trouble.
My brother, who is a Political Science professor, would absolutely love this. He's always taken the position that since educators are some of the most important people in society, they should be the biggest earners.
A few weeks ago the super in that district said he wanted to move to a 4 day/10 hours a day school week THIS school year not, he said, in order to save money, but to bring up test scores. It was, of course, totally about saving money and other districts who tried it said scores did not go up compressing the school week. The super said he knew it was a good thing because he researched it on google. The parents went nuts and the state education agency said No. Then he came up with this even though other districts tried it and it made absentism rise, not go down. My guess is the state will take over this district eventually.
My brother, who is a Political Science professor, would absolutely love this. He's always taken the position that since educators are some of the most important people in society, they should be the biggest earners.
is it 'earning' if they have to give up something to get it? at best, it's bartering; at worst, bribery.
A few weeks ago the super in that district said he wanted to move to a 4 day/10 hours a day school week THIS school year not, he said, in order to save money, but to bring up test scores. It was, of course, totally about saving money and other districts who tried it said scores did not go up compressing the school week. The super said he knew it was a good thing because he researched it on google. The parents went nuts and the state education agency said No. Then he came up with this even though other districts tried it and it made absentism rise, not go down. My guess is the state will take over this district eventually.
one of those, huh? i worked in a district that was in receivership. state-control is no panacea, let me tell you. it was mostly lots of personnel and program juggling, and no meaningful change.
My brother, who is a Political Science professor, would absolutely love this. He's always taken the position that since educators are some of the most important people in society, they should be the biggest earners.
If that were the case, 80% of the current teachers would now be pumping gas. I agree, we should be paying them 6 figure salaries. However I could only accept that if we removed the tenure system, and made them subject to detailed evaluations each year.
I'm all for raising salaries, we just need MUCH more accountability, and MUCH higher standards.
~T
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