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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. Wher
by 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 agoTried 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 agoYou 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.
- tlrobinson 12y agoI 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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