04-13-2018, 10:54 PM
There is in fact little room for 'rock-star teachers' in K-12 education who can perform so much better than average that they can be paid much more than others. The nature of educational practice tends to reduce even 'star' teachers toward the median in effectiveness. The teacher with extreme knowledge of his subject typically ends up a college teacher.
Any strike is a dislocation. But the ability to strike is essential to the freedom of workers to seek redress of grievances for public and private employees. If you want a society without strikes, you get a society without badic dignity for workers, as employees get to walk all over workers.
Arizona, Oklah9oma, and West Virginia have been close to the bottom in educational achi9evement 00 and investment in public education. Such could reflect bad social policy in the past -- including under-investment in public education. Note well that the state4s in wigh public education fares best in results are not the ones with the teachers; strikes.
Any strike is a dislocation. But the ability to strike is essential to the freedom of workers to seek redress of grievances for public and private employees. If you want a society without strikes, you get a society without badic dignity for workers, as employees get to walk all over workers.
Arizona, Oklah9oma, and West Virginia have been close to the bottom in educational achi9evement 00 and investment in public education. Such could reflect bad social policy in the past -- including under-investment in public education. Note well that the state4s in wigh public education fares best in results are not the ones with the teachers; strikes.
The ideal subject of totalitarian rule is not the convinced Nazi or the dedicated Communist but instead the people for whom the distinction between fact and fiction, true and false, no longer exists -- Hannah Arendt.