Fire every teacher?

A school in Rhode Island is considering firing every teacher above a certain pay grade in response to bad grades.

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[GilbertsonDerick]

$72,000-$78,000 salary?!

I'm sure there are many teachers who would snatch up that offer in a second!

[mccormickjm]

Blame the teachers rather than the students and the parents. Sounds great. We don't need to hold the students responsible for their own conduct. As for the extra time, teachers already put in much, much more than their 40 hours per week. They just keep asking for more and more from us, but place no accountability elsewhere.

[TheOneAndOnly2020]

Teachers unions needs to stay the hell out of education, too. Their best interest is for the TEACHERS, not the students. They've shown that time and time again.

[TheOneAndOnly2020]

fire those damn teachers. NO teachers, however good, should get a permanent contract. That's just silly... That leaves tons of room for the bad teachers to keep doing bad, without any repercussion. But i do agree, alot of this isn't the teachers fault. A lot of the blame rests with the governments horrible education laws.

[fogggygyrl]

CNN is just listing the top salary that a teacher who has been at the school the longest makes. S/he is probably a year or two away from retirement age.  The real reason our govt. wants to be able to fire teachers is so they can cut out the teachers they have to pay the most who are the veteran teachers, then they can hire rookie teachers for less money and fire them when they make more with seniority in the future by claiming they are horrible teachers too. They're doing this in CA now.

[Lyrix12]

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[shaochiavang]

of course students aint performing well in math, look at how easy their freakin math is in highschool, and you only need 3years of math, 1hr each day too. wtf

[meucuzinho]

no need to change poverty in order the improve children's performance??? sure? getting rid of teachers and education is crime organized by government/corporation in order to keep population stupid and enslaved. this way, not being specialized labor, people will take any kind of job, for any kind of money, with any kind of benefit ( or no benefits at all)... sad. corporations have more political power than ever in this country... sad. America is bellow ground zero, we've been buried alive.

[Screenman5]

How in the world can Mr. Perry by an "educational correspondent"? The guy is a HIT MAN FOR THE PRIVATIZATION CORPORATIONS AND THEIR LOBBYISTS.

Bad job by CNN!

[tdforjesus]

Teachers are not soley accountable. There are many factors that go into why a student is not achieving success. For example.... teachers, home life, parents, poverty, inability of the student to learn, special needs, biological problems, media and etc.

Its hard for teachers to work with students if their are problems in the life's of the students. Its not impossible but hard, even for the most committed and educated teacher.

[redvvictor]

@Mesfunification Now it's not compensation,it's about all the teachers are fired, higher paid or lower paid. The truth is teachers haven't go raise in the past a few years, If they blame teachers for the deficit, then it's a solution for cutting everyone's pay. Of course, they can fire all and get all new low-paid teachers, they can do that disregard teachers voices. Then, the whole nation is going to fire all the teachers.

[1falconeye2]

I've been a public school teacher for over 20 years in Florida and make a heck of a lot less than these Rhode Island teachers. Cost of living in Florida is no longer inexpensive down here! A huge problem I see is the curriculum. I still believe that there is a lot of "dumbing down" in the system. It is not the teachers! In addition, parents do not help like in earlier generations. My mom did not speak English, spoke German, (only a HS grad). However, she managed to help me with school work!