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>The fundamental problem with public school teachers are that the “customer” in the relationship isn’t the parent or the child, but the gov bureaucrat. So while
by wnevets 8y ago
>The fundamental problem with public school teachers are that the “customer” in the relationship isn’t the parent or the child, but the gov bureaucrat. So while the results of a teacher might hurt the child or the parent, who cares as it’s not them to who they cater to.
Thanks no child left behind! Tying school funding and teacher pay to child test schools is one of the largest blunders this country has made.
- nichos 8y agoThanks to government in general. America's students are much worse since the inception of the DOE.
- wnevets 8y agoCitation needed
- tropo 8y agoThe implementation was botched, but the idea was fine. You need good quality tests that aren't supplied by book publishers. Ideally you'd test anything, but if tests are unavailable for a particular subject then you have to mandate hours for that subject to keep it from disappearing. You need test security so that the teachers don't cheat. Instead of just cutting pay, which isn't helpful, you should pay per-student and adjust the number of students per teacher. It is easy to teach a very small group, but very hard to teach a large group. Shift students from bad teachers to good teachers until the quality is equalized. Unfortunately this hits a problem with standardized classroom size. Aside from that though, it would be fine to have one teacher with 9 students and another teacher with 72 students. The teacher with 75 is getting paid 8x as much as the teacher with 9, and the students all get equal quality.