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Teachers should make six figures, the best ones should make seven like couches do now. And it should be very easy to fire bad ones. Basically should be at will

• ethbr0 4y ago
  > at will employment with school district This is thorny, because it gets into the problems tenure was created to combat: school administration's goals aren't always student success. Especially now, they can be myopically assessment-focused or political. Subordinating teachers to the whim of administration wouldn't help this. Jury-of-their-peers is slightly better, but has its own issues.
  • option 4y ago
    school boards are (and should be) elected positions. So theoretically they are accountable to parents.
    • ethbr0 4y ago
      Parents definitely shouldn't be the primary source of authority. If you want to know how badly otherwise seemingly mature adults can behave, come to a local school board meeting in Florida. "For the kids" + average parent = asshole with no holds barred