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Originally posted by fintstone
Most of the "educational time" we have with our kids is to try to counteract/unteach the anti-competition, anti-religion, procommunist teachings and sex mis-education that government schools seem to do such a good job doing..leaving little time to teach more reading, writing, and arithmetic...which they do such a poor job of.
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Could you elabortate on this. What anti-religion, procommunist, or sex miseducation are you referring to?
As far as your "measurable" question...If teaching is your business, it seems you should be able to come up with some way to measure your work.
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As mentioned above, there doesn't seem to be any good measure on how a particular teacher can be uniquely measured for the year. There are proposals to have a standardized test. I guess you could administer one at the start of the school year and one at the end, and try to establish how well the students learned from a teacher, but I would expect all you get is how well the students learned the answers to the test. And I suspect all students' scores would still be a bell shaped curve and so what have you learned?
Since you claim that grades, test scores, etc are not fair measures.....why not allow the ultimate measure of any enterprise...competition? Let any parent who chooses opt out of the system and take the money (expenditure per student) to the school of their choice. You will find out real fast which schools and teacher are capable and which are not. The very fact that the schools/teachers/liberals/NEA fight this tells me that they already know the answer.
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It is not feasible. Let's say all 500 students at school A want to go to 4 other schools. First off, the other schools do not have classrooms for them or teachers, unless you propose that any student who wants to opt out gives a least a years notice. Then there would be merely a reshuffling, at great expense, of teachers and the purchase of temporary classrooms. It would be a shell game.
Then there are charter schools and you don't find out until two years later when the school closes and your kids haven't kept up to speed that, oops, this wasn't the answer. Do search on charter schools in Florida.
The only way I know to remove poor teachers is to get invovlved in your local school board, and be active in the PTA, and lobby the principal to transfer a poor teacher.