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Union Boycotts LA Times Over Teacher Evaluation Disclosure
Atypical Geek writes "According to Newsweek, the local teachers union is infuriated over the disclosure of teacher performance metrics. Quoting: 'Do parents have the right to know which of their kids' teachers are the most and least effective? That's the controversy roaring in California this week with the publication of an investigative series by the Los Angeles Times's Jason Song and Jason Felch, who used seven years of math and English test data to publicly identify the best and the worst third- to fifth-grade teachers in the Los Angeles Unified School District. The newspaper's announcement of its plans to release data later this month on all 6,000 of the city's elementary-school teachers has prompted the local teachers' union to rally members to organize a boycott of the newspaper.' According to the linked Times article, United Teachers Los Angeles president A.J. Duffy said the database was 'an irresponsible, offensive intrusion into your professional life that will do nothing to improve student learning.'"
Are you union? See there's the difference. All these hard working unions gave us 5 day work weeks and 40 hour work weeks and safety regulations (70+ years ago) so that obviously gives All union employees free rides for life!
After all, teachers aren't barely-literate manual laborers; they have college degrees - shouldn't they be able to negotiate a salary on their own?
Ah, GOT IT! Flunk out of college, retain the right to collective bargaining. Graduate college, lose the right to collective bargaining. Wow, you're the walking, talking embodiment of someone who received an extraordinarily poor education.
If there were a market in teacher pay, for example, I'm reasonably certain that a high school physics teacher would make a lot more than a kindergarten teacher.
If the high school physics teacher is even a tad competent in their field, they do. It's called consulting. K teachers don't get it, but physics and chemistry teachers can if they want it. Otherwise, I won't bring up the 5-10 issues you're NOT addressing in this zero-sum scenario.