[fintstone]

Originally posted by fintstone

...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.

Originally posted by stevepaa
...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.

It is quite feasible and simple...issue each family vouchers for the amount that the public school receives to educate their child. Let them use the voucher at any school they please. The good schools/teachers will flourish...the others will close/find more appropriate employment.

Sure, lobby a Principal to fire an incompetent teacher...LOL..like that is going to do anything...everyone closes ranks.
If that worked, schools would not be filled with them. The only way to get rid of an incompetent teacher would be via a very expensive law suit...and anyone who can afford that has probably already taken their kids out and put them in a better school.