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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 ...'"
Or liberal propaganda?
Slashdot is sometimes quite sickening in this aspect, venturing beyond their intended area(news for nerds) to score some ad-impressions.
Knowledge is power. Knowledge shared is power lost.
From TFA:
Polanco looked at the cuts and said they "were weak," according to witness accounts in documents filed with the state. "Carve deeper next time," he was said to have told the boy.
"Look," Polanco allegedly said, "you can't even kill yourself."
The boy's classmates joined in, with one advising how to cut a main artery, according to the witnesses.
"See," Polanco was quoted as saying, "even he knows how to commit suicide better than you."
The Los Angeles school board, citing Polanco's poor judgment, voted to fire him.
But Polanco, who contended that he had been misunderstood, kept his job. A little-known review commission overruled the board, saying that although the teacher had made the statements, he had meant no harm.
I like this guy! Give him a raise!
How the fuck has this blatant piece of bullshit racism gone unchecked for this long?
Mod parent up.
Answering this question with any more than three letters is completely missing the forest for the trees.
Well fist I teach middle school in the inner city (The bronx) its kinda hard to teach kids who dont want to learn shit. When you look at the amount of kids who graduate to high school and cant even read a news paper its a sorry pitiful shame. Here in NYC the kids have more power than the teacher who teach them. How can I teach when kids tell you fuck you and threaten to get you fired every day ? and Like one of the previous posters said. The African American kids dont want to learn nothing in my community their parents are illiterate so there is a high chance they will become illiterate. These parents dont participate in any school activities and the only time they come to the school is when their kids are hurt or want to sue the schools. Meanwhile all the foreign kids pass with flying colora.
Yes there is. Are we only permitted to associate positive traits with races? Would you dare deny that African Americans are more genetically gifted athletes than Caucasians? I can't imagine anyone arguing this is not the case. Likewise, African Americans are, as a race, genetically predisposed to ignorance. We see some exceptions in cases where the idiocy genes have been weeded out, such as with President Obama, where his white mother's genes determining intelligence were passed, but this is rare.
curricula (wow, incorrect spelling and incorrect use of the plural, is that because all those mean liberals didn't teach you correctly?)
And that my friend is a sign of hypercorrection (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hypercorrection) because in English plurals are formed with the suffix s, es after an s, and not the way it's done in latin. So plural of curriculum is in fact curriculums.
In the future when grammar nazi-ing, please do it properly. Thanks.
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.
Stopped reading right there. You're a racist piece of shit.
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.
Can ye lend a nigga a pencil?
=P
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 ?