Why shouldn't teachers be held accountable for results? Every other industry holds employees accountable to perform and deliver.
Nothing wrong with holding teachers accountable. And they are held accountable. Teachers are fired all the time for this and that even within a union shop. As far as test scores, I don't think teacher's promotions, bonuses or pay should not be based on student test scores. Like I said earlier, the students that score low on tests are usually the ones that don't care about learning in addition to behavior issues despite the valiant efforts of the teachers. Some of these kids are 2 and 3 grades behind in reading. How is that kid going to pass a standardize test? Then this potentially leads to teachers teaching to the test or potential to cheat like that teaching cheating scandal in the Atlanta schools a few years back. Because some districts use test score performance for teacher's promotions, bonuses or pay, I'm surprised that cheating hasn't been more prevalent. That bodes well of the professionalism of the teachers to not do this.
Typical BNI. Instead of answering why teachers shouldn't be accountable for performance, you want to point fingers at one Republican. Why not talk about the results of all?
Once a teacher has tenure it’s pretty hard to fire them unless it’s a sexual incident with a student.
I agree teachers should be held accountable but there is way more to the story.
I answered y'all a long time ago. I said the poor academic performance is on the kids that don't want to learn plus the behavior issues. Not the teachers. Most of the teachers are good teachers, of course some fall through the cracks and they are doing the best that can under the circumstances of the kids that they are trying to educate. They constantly have to tell the kids to sit down in their seats. Stop talking. Fight break out. Half the kids don't turn in the homework. When they do turn it in its wrong. Nowadays, in addition to the aforementioned, now teachers have to compete with the students on their cell phones in the class. You can blame the teachers and unions if you want to but 100% of the poor school performance is due to the students themselves.
It is both. Parents not instilling a desire to learn is a problem.. Teachers with horrible classroom management, horrible principals, poor pedagogical practices and a desire for social engineering over academics runs rampant as well.
In this thread, it looks like you are turning your back on the plight of inner city black people. Again. It's a common theme with you. You want to appear not to be racist by grandstanding about statues (SMH), and then when you vote for the people who caused the inner city problem, you say the people stuck in your problem have to fix it themselves. But you keep voting against potential solutions.
I’m not turning my back on anyone. I just know reality. The democrats don’t force women in the inner cities to have kids. The democrats didn’t force these people to use drugs, sell drugs.
The Democrats fix for most of this is abortion. Kill the children and it solves many social problems. How can you rationalize voting for a party that is part of systematically exterminating the human race?
Again, you are showing your racism -- and ignorance. I have lived and worked in Chicago for a big part of my life. I volunteer at a community center that serves an "under-served" community. Didn't you state in an earlier post that you attended a private school? And you are telling other people that you understand the plight of innner city black kids? lol
Yeah, I went to a Catholic high school. I also went to a public elementary and middle school with a whole lot of kids on the free lunch program. They mostly lived in public housing in the same part of the city where we lived. The “projects” as we called them were just a few blocks away. I played little league with some of these kids. Played hoops in the local parks with these kids. My mother was a teacher to some of these kids. Dude, I know my people like the back of my hand.
What's the most sickening is the applause she gets showing the hard left Marxist lean to the majority of teachers.....most our children are stuck with.
"Your people"? Yeah, you are using terms like "grifters" and THEY "don't want to get educated" and THEY "have behavior problems". In your mind, you are clearly referring to them with the n-word. And you think they should overcome everything you vote for and "fix it themselves." Meanwhile you help them by courageously fighting the great "Statue War", which will not undue a thing you have done to them.
