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More like "Waynesboro Rotary Club Teacher of the Year"? Looks like this is blogspam with a linkbaity title. Original was "The Tough Decision to Leave the Class

More like "Waynesboro Rotary Club Teacher of the Year"? Looks like this is blogspam with a linkbaity title. Original was "The Tough Decision to Leave the Classroom": http://iamjwal.com/the-tough-decision-to-leave-the-classroom/ http://iamjwal.com/the-tough-decision-to-leave-the-classroom...

blakeja 12y ago
BS, link bait / blogspam are any one of the numerous nautil.us or medium.com articles that seem to consistently make it onto the front page of hackernews. Whereas, this article reflects the same sentiments I have been hearing from close friends over the past years who are public school teachers. And it boils down to two facts that I have taken particular note of after listening to their grievances: 1. Government interference with education has been a huge mistake. 2. We do not pay our teachers nearly enough. You cannot legislate education, especially when trying to create a universal adapter for all education across the country. You cannot get quality teachers in the education system without adequate compensation, period.
- frozenport 12y ago
  >>You cannot get quality teachers in the education system without adequate compensation, period. In Chicago we tried paying them more and didn't see much improvement.
  - eropple 12y ago
    Tried paying the current teachers more, or undergoing a concentrated effort to evaluate current teachers against a baseline and aggressively court and hire at competitive wages teachers who have a track record of being better than the teachers that you have at that baseline? I ask 'cause while I know nothing about Chicago, I've found that what you said always comes up with regard to the former.
    - sitkack 12y ago
      You can't just fix something with more money. Analogously, it would be like fixing a soup with too much salt by pouring in more water and sour cream, might work, might not.
      - eropple 12y ago
        Yes, that was my point, thank you for repeating it.
        sitkack 12y ago
        total agreement, how do we fix it?
- tlrobinson 12y ago
  I wasn't referring to the content of the article, just the fact that schoolleadership20.com seems to have ripped off the original article and added a linkbaity headline. i.e. blogspam
- deleted 12y ago
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sctb 12y ago
Thanks, we updated the URL from http://www.schoolleadership20.com/m/blogpost?id=1990010%3ABlogPost%3A205389 http://www.schoolleadership20.com/m/blogpost?id=1990010%3ABl....

blakeja 12y ago

BS, link bait / blogspam are any one of the numerous nautil.us or medium.com articles that seem to consistently make it onto the front page of hackernews. Whereas, this article reflects the same sentiments I have been hearing from close friends over the past years who are public school teachers. And it boils down to two facts that I have taken particular note of after listening to their grievances: 1. Government interference with education has been a huge mistake. 2. We do not pay our teachers nearly enough. You cannot legislate education, especially when trying to create a universal adapter for all education across the country. You cannot get quality teachers in the education system without adequate compensation, period.

frozenport 12y ago
>>You cannot get quality teachers in the education system without adequate compensation, period. In Chicago we tried paying them more and didn't see much improvement.
- eropple 12y ago
  Tried paying the current teachers more, or undergoing a concentrated effort to evaluate current teachers against a baseline and aggressively court and hire at competitive wages teachers who have a track record of being better than the teachers that you have at that baseline? I ask 'cause while I know nothing about Chicago, I've found that what you said always comes up with regard to the former.
  - sitkack 12y ago
    You can't just fix something with more money. Analogously, it would be like fixing a soup with too much salt by pouring in more water and sour cream, might work, might not.
    - eropple 12y ago
      Yes, that was my point, thank you for repeating it.
      - sitkack 12y ago
        total agreement, how do we fix it?
tlrobinson 12y ago
I wasn't referring to the content of the article, just the fact that schoolleadership20.com seems to have ripped off the original article and added a linkbaity headline. i.e. blogspam
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sctb 12y ago

Thanks, we updated the URL from http://www.schoolleadership20.com/m/blogpost?id=1990010%3ABlogPost%3A205389 http://www.schoolleadership20.com/m/blogpost?id=1990010%3ABl....