Well, this could get expensive.
The Bloomberg administration and New York City’s teachers’ union said Thursday that they had failed to reach a deal on a new system for evaluating 75,000 public school teachers, putting the city into immediate danger of losing out on up to $450 million in state money and raising the possibility of cuts to staff and programs.
You’ll have to forgive the teachers’ union, they’re very new to the concept of having one’s continued employment tied to doing the job well. They’re more concerned with the nature of the evaluation system than hundreds of millions of dollars in education money.
Remember that the next time an education union whines that we’re not spending enough.
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In their defense they know perfectly well that most of them wouldn’t survive an evaulation system. That’s what all the cheating scandals in the Atlanta school system were about…the System hiding it’s failures and it’s inability to properly do their job.
They’re hacks and they know it.
I just love the utter hypocrisy. I had teachers shove tests in front of me for years. I remember asking one teacher to lighten up on the pop tests- I had a job and sometimes needed to catch up on the weekends. She acted like I was asking her to move Mt Everest. SAT’s, finals, California Achievement Tests- all part of my school year.
The idea that THEY should be evaluated- well – that’s just crazy talk!
Tell me why we still need all these brick and mortar buildings?
I agree BobJustBob … and I know it’s a comment and not a treatise, but, since we’re talking eduction….
it’s = it is
its = the possessive form of it – “the System hiding its failures”
carry on!
regretleft, if you’re going to be nit-picky….
eduction =/= education
I am all for doing away with public education as it presently exists, but fair is fair.
It is not reasonable to evaluate teachers by student performance, when that performance is tied to families, communities and, yes, genetics.
Even good teachers can’t teach kids that don’t care about their future. If they just want the gangsta life,selling drugs and being baby daddy’s that abandon their children, then that is what they are going to do after they drop out of school. Trying to teach them anthing is like teaching a wall to talk. A teacher should not loose their job over them.