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Why Is It So Difficult To Fire Bad Teachers?
Ant writes with this depressing story about how public schools sometimes work: "This six-page Los Angeles Times article shares its investigation to find 'the process [of firing poor teachers] so arduous that many school principals don't even try (One-page version), except in the very worst cases. Jettisoning a teacher solely because he or she can't teach is rare ...'"
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Answering this question with any more than three letters is completely missing the forest for the trees.
And Japanese are not economically that much worse off than Americans.
I was about to reply about the standard of living over here in Japan (you're not going to become phenomenally wealthy, but everyone is comfortably middle class--the guy at the gas station will probably be able to afford to send his kids to college if they want to go--I call that better than in the US), but then I realized something, I think...
Are you actually using "Japanese" and "American" to mean "Americans of Japanese descent" and "Americans of random European (white) descent"? Because if you are, well... I'm glad we didn't elect you, Ms. Palin.
I agree it is so blatantly obvious. It is the one lesson you thought the Western world learned... but apparently not.
You CANNOT bring accountability to a system without any choice and risk of failure.
When you centralize everything, you automatically hand over the system to the groups that run it.
You can add 1 million layers of regulator and bureaucrats, it just builds into the system.
Without choice, you automatically ruin the system.
A teacher not happy with their school's policies, cannot go out there and start their own school with better policies. ...
A student with a bad school cannot just pick up and leave and go to another school.'
This is not about socialism or capitalism... you can have choice in socialism (as sweden has school vouchers...). It is just the way life works. It's the way it has always worked, and how it always will work. It just so happens that 9 times out of 10, the socialists are also into big central government. Not that conservatives are much better these days.
As a libertarian
What's that, a euphemism for "talking out of my arse"? Stop making the other libertarians look foolish.
officials an hook into private schools...
the gvment they...
I'm not sure if you are qualified to comment on the education system, since not only have you failed at basic spelling, you have also failed at installing a spell checker.
until private and public schools are the same
And what is wrong with that? Surely you wouldn't deprive a fellow man access to good education, especially if it will incur no great increase in taxation?
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But, but, but, but, but, but ... what you're saying only makes sense if some people really are better than others.
You're saying that people who try to study are entitled to better grades than criminal troublemakers, that people who try to learn have a right to better education than the worse performers. You are saying people are massively unequal, due to their efforts (mostly early in life, and nearly unfixable at later ages).
You're saying that blacks from criminal neighbourhoods really do have a problem that originates with their parents and friends, and that we should punish them by "denying" them the best education. Other people (those with parents who actually care for example) have the right to better education, better jobs, more money, and protection from their less educated classmates.
You're saying that equality of opportunity should be given, but that equality of outcome is the worst thing that could ever happen to education. You're saying we should discriminate, and merely give anyone one (1) chance to break through that discrimination.
Barack Obama is shitting himself and turning as red as a black tomato. Say ... why are those helicopters leaving the white house in the direction of my house ?