Waiting For Superman 2010 part 8 of 11

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[tnoodz]

Eliminating tenure is definitely the first step in correcting U.S. education. Without that, the U.S. will continue to be dragged along by the good teachers and weighed down by the bad. You could get fired from any job whether it's fast food, journalist, banker, contruction worker, whatever. There is no reason why teachers should have this immunity to losing their job. The education will not improve without a solution to this issue.

[MsJanetWood]

Wow! A school where STUDENTS and PARENTS are actually held accountable!

5:06 “Parents what are YOU reading to YOUR CHILD tonight.”

6:10 Students are required to wear UNIFORMS! Boys must wear a tie and tuck in their shirts!

9:46 “No T.V. No games”

[AlwaysSoRealChick]

i go to a KIPP School :)

[pathos6296]

@buckeyemike81 because no one cares about the chil'en

[buckeyemike81]

@Floodlezoot In every other profession the best people get paid the most. This system directs the best people into the profession that their skills and education are most suited for. If you refuse to pay based on merit the best teachers will quit and the bad teachers will stay.

Clearly some teachers are better than others yes? If so, why wouldn't you want the teachers that perform better to get paid better?

[Floodlezoot]

@buckeyemike81 don't 50 percent of American teachers leave the profession within 5 years, even with the union perks?

what would the attrition rate for public school teachers be once they start getting screwed over because of added pressure to get results, added pressure to compete and report on "bad teachers", and their benefits and pay getting stripped away because of "tough economic times" once they can't band together?

[buckeyemike81]

@Floodlezoot If you wanted to fix education it would be simple. Ban teachers unions (even FDR was against public sector unions), and give parents a voucher they could use for any school (public, private, or charter) and have the schools compete to stay open. The best schools will get tons of money and the bad schools will be shut down.

[buckeyemike81]

@Floodlezoot In the book Freakonomics (or possibly the sequel SuperFreakonomics) they showed 4 ways to easily spot cheating teachers. You should read the book before showing your ignorance.

[Floodlezoot]

@buckeyemike81 Ok buckeyemike, charter schools and for profit education will save the world and test scores will all go up drastically. America will be saved. Just keep doing what you're doing then. Can't wait to read the news about inner city kids' test scores jumping up to those of Finland and Korea and for our society to become truly egalitarian. Should be any day now.

[Floodlezoot]

@buckeyemike81 wrong. wrong. just wrong. they lied to get rewards from the government for exceeding quotas. You are talking about some kind of cartoon world communism.

Also, there was a major cheating scandal. it's no5easy at all to catch teachers cheating, you queer. They just reviewed some tests and found that someone put as the definition of "benign": a number that is nine. This was marked as correct. That's a fact. Teachers now feel pressured to give inflated marks.

[buckeyemike81]

@Floodlezoot HSA uses a lottery to accept its students, and they have a higher than average percentage of special education students. You're either an idiot or you're being purposely dishonest.