01-01-2017, 06:57 PM
(01-01-2017, 02:57 PM)Bob Butler 54 Wrote:(01-01-2017, 10:02 AM)Odin Wrote: The problem with performance-based evaluation is that a lot of things that go into kids' academic performance is completely outside of teacher's control. It's not the teachers' fault for a student having a poor home life or for a student having parents who are dullards or anti-intellectual. Performance-based evaluation leads to teachers trying to avoid teaching in low-income, underprivileged communities.
You need to quit believing all the right-wing propaganda about teachers' unions, Warren. It makes you look pathetic.
My sister taught first grade in a wealthy seacoast Boston suburb, and was for a time a low level union person. She always said the politicians promised easy answers that didn't help. Time spent doing politically mandated stuff could instead be spent teaching. The politicians were generally more interested in votes than the kids. At least in her school system, which admittedly featured decent funding a lot of good parents, the locals were trying to do the best they could in spite of stated and federal government interference. The dynamic could be different elsewhere.
So, agreed, the stuff Warren is parroting has nothing to do with what I've heard from a professional. He seems locked in Propagandaville.
Actually, what your sister apparently said supports my original point perfectly: public schools can't teach efficiently, because teachers in public schools have to keep the government happy. Switch to vouchers that parents can use for private schooling, and the time can be spent teaching instead of pleasing politicians.