"a fight for the very soul of public education" No hyperbole, here, huh? Give me a break! I'm a 33-year vet of teaching high school in Virginia. Not give the average Chicago teacher exactly what he/she wants -- when they already make 50% more than I do -- is idiocy!
"......contract ...addresses two issues central to the debate over the future of public education across the United States: teacher evaluations and job security."
WHAT? Teacher evaluations are what they are. In 99% of cases,you do your job well, they keep you. You suck, you get a few years to fix it, or you're gone. Job security? Really? Since when does any healthy (i.e. intelligent) company offer job security?
"Personally I think there's a lot of us who don't want to lose the parental support". Well, if you act like YOU'RE top priority, then you'll lose their support. As a teacher, you are a giver, NOT a taker.
Come on teachers. When we believe that you only care about yourselves, then no, we're not on your side.
The public safety argument doesn't wash. If that was the case, there would be a public safety issue every summer for two months.
However, someone will find a judge to demand the teachers to return to work. Then, the union will find a judge to place a temporary restraining order on the order to return to work. While the lawyers hash it out (of course they are the winners in all this), the teachers and administration will come to an agreement.
Remember, teachers are basically working for a monopoly. If they lose their job because some reviewer doesn't like their results or teaching style, they are black-balled. That is why there are unions in the first place. Public schools in the state hire 98% of the teachers. Yes, they are worried about getting removed, not because of a lack of effort, but because of a lack of results by some questionable scale. It can kill a career. We can go to another employer, but teachers carry the results with them.
The Right Wing TV and radio media's job is to shield and protect the Wall Street Bankers from any blame for causing a near Depression. Instead, they want to get everyone riled up against Teachers, Nurses, and Police. Also, since Unions typically give money to the Democratic Party, they want to bust any Union in order to give the Republicans a huge money advantage for campaigns. In other words the Republican Party wants to cheat just like their strategy to disallow minorities from voting. I know that teachers don't make anywhere close to what Wall Street Bankers do.
cc: Governor's Scott Walker, Tom Corbett, Pat Quinn.
As someone who has voted Republican all of my adult life, I am truly concerned about the future of my country. I am concerned about all of the anti-education, anti-teacher, Nazi style propaganda. The same party that for years had opposed the teaching of evolution in the "godless" public schools is now advocating the natural selection of children through a myriad of false pretenses, including fiscal responsibility, a voucher school system with no established structure and minimal funding at best. The same party that also complains about the redistribution of wealth, and demands limited government, is taking money from the public school system and creating its own bureaucracy in the form of charter schools (Pennsylvania). Speaking of redistribution, the only real solution being offered for education reform is basically a Republican sponsored voucher bait and switch program. This bait and switch program will result in marginally remedial children being absolutely left behind, in favor of students that will give teachers better performance scores. Ultimately, teachers will be forced to compete for the best students. The same party that is so concerned about future generations of children being burdened with a trillion dollar deficit, ironically, thinks nothing of sacrificing children of this generation for its grand privatized education experiment.
I understand that the Tea Party is popular indeed; however, this is a representative democracy, not mob rule. This makes it more prudently every voter's business. Like you, I also understand the importance of private education, having gone to through parochial grade school and high school. I did not vote Republican in the last election or in any previous election for that matter to see the education system in this country destroyed, and remade in someone else's image. Finally, as a Catholic parent who has a child in a suburban public school that I specifically desired and chose, just remember, if you don't put my child first, don't expect me to put your party first either next election day. I will vote from my child's perspective next election day. I will be sure to bring him with me when I vote, just as a reminder! I will make it my business!
They make more than most teachers in the rest of the country. I think the average in Honolulu is about 45 to 50k and you can't escape to the burbs on Oahu. I do not think that Chicago is getting their 76k worth out of teachers considering the student performance.
Apparently you're comparing teaching to the jobs of cashiers at Walmart. You might want to know what the process entails long before one becomes a teacher.
Feels like a third world nation - isn't it. The real America is fueled by the cream of students who are educated overseas and come here for their masters...Years ago I was talking to ome parents in Bangkok's American school. Parents used to complain about teachers who came from Virginia and Toronto.... At the lack of knowledge in basic math and physics...they were glorified because thy could speak english which is what the thais and chinese wanted to lean...
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No hyperbole, here, huh? Give me a break! I'm a 33-year vet of teaching high school in Virginia. Not give the average Chicago teacher exactly what he/she wants -- when they already make 50% more than I do -- is idiocy!
"......contract ...addresses two issues central to the debate over the future of public education across the United States: teacher evaluations and job security."
WHAT?
Teacher evaluations are what they are. In 99% of cases,you do your job well, they keep you. You suck, you get a few years to fix it, or you're gone.
Job security? Really? Since when does any healthy (i.e. intelligent) company offer job security?
"Personally I think there's a lot of us who don't want to lose the parental support". Well, if you act like YOU'RE top priority, then you'll lose their support. As a teacher, you are a giver, NOT a taker.
Come on teachers. When we believe that you only care about yourselves, then no, we're not on your side.
However, someone will find a judge to demand the teachers to return to work. Then, the union will find a judge to place a temporary restraining order on the order to return to work. While the lawyers hash it out (of course they are the winners in all this), the teachers and administration will come to an agreement.
cc: Governor's Scott Walker, Tom Corbett, Pat Quinn.
As someone who has voted Republican all of my adult life, I am truly concerned about the future of my country. I am concerned about all of the anti-education, anti-teacher, Nazi style propaganda. The same party that for years had opposed the teaching of evolution in the "godless" public schools is now advocating the natural selection of children through a myriad of false pretenses, including fiscal responsibility, a voucher school system with no established structure and minimal funding at best. The same party that also complains about the redistribution of wealth, and demands limited government, is taking money from the public school system and creating its own bureaucracy in the form of charter schools (Pennsylvania). Speaking of redistribution, the only real solution being offered for education reform is basically a Republican sponsored voucher bait and switch program. This bait and switch program will result in marginally remedial children being absolutely left behind, in favor of students that will give teachers better performance scores. Ultimately, teachers will be forced to compete for the best students. The same party that is so concerned about future generations of children being burdened with a trillion dollar deficit, ironically, thinks nothing of sacrificing children of this generation for its grand privatized education experiment.
I understand that the Tea Party is popular indeed; however, this is a representative democracy, not mob rule. This makes it more prudently every voter's business. Like you, I also understand the importance of private education, having gone to through parochial grade school and high school. I did not vote Republican in the last election or in any previous election for that matter to see the education system in this country destroyed, and remade in someone else's image. Finally, as a Catholic parent who has a child in a suburban public school that I specifically desired and chose, just remember, if you don't put my child first, don't expect me to put your party first either next election day. I will vote from my child's perspective next election day. I will be sure to bring him with me when I vote, just as a reminder! I will make it my business!
Hire the teachers who will work for wood shavings, as surely they are the experts.