Chicago Teach Strike

[Jay Trotter]

Originally Posted by rastajenk

If you teach the same grade year after year, you only have to do it once.

If you're a good teacher your lesson plans are self-evaluated, reassessed and evolve with the times just like any good "business" would do.

If you made the plan once and then just mailed it in after that you would not be doing quality work. I think they deserve a little more credit than what you are giving them.

[Mike at A+]

Originally Posted by Tom

No, they have to dumb it down every year because 25% fail.

I wonder if they calculate that number similar to the way they calculate unemployment? Lets say that it suddenly drops to 24% and the teachers union says that education in Chicago is improving but they fail to mention that the dropout rate increased and 50 kids were shot for their LeBron sneakers and the 50 who shot them are in jail now and no longer included in the statistics.

[Tom]

Originally Posted by Jay Trotter

If you're a good teacher your lesson plans are self-evaluated, reassessed and evolve with the times just like any good "business" would do.

If you made the plan once and then just mailed it in after that you would not be doing quality work. I think they deserve a little more credit than what you are giving them.

Any good business...nice phrase - the drop out rate in Chitown is what, double the national average?

A good business would be firing those people who are failing to perform. Effort is worthless - results are all that matter.

Good businesses also have performance reviews but the teachers are opposed to this.

Maybe good business is not a good parallel to the union.

[dartman51]

Originally Posted by Tom

Any good business...nice phrase - the drop out rate in Chitown is what, double the national average?

A good business would be firing those people who are failing to perform. Effort is worthless - results are all that matter.

Good businesses also have performance reviews but the teachers are opposed to this.

Maybe good business is not a good parallel to the union.

Don't you think it odd that Obama has been unusually quiet on this matter, especially since "teacher performance reviews" is one of the cornerstones of HIS program, RACE TO THE TOP? If this was a Republican mayor, and not his buddy Rahm, he would have the DOJ suing the Mayor and the city, over this.

[Tom]

DOJ is too busy collaborating with Media Matters to stifle news story that do not flatter Obama.

http://www.examiner.com/article/emai...-spinning-news

Internal Department of Justice emails obtained through a Freedom of Information Act request by The Daily Caller reveal Attorney General Eric Holder’s communications staff has worked with the progressive advocacy group Media Matters for America in efforts to spin news stories that reflect negatively on Holder and the nation’s top law enforcement agency.

[DJofSD]

http://blog.heritage.org/2012/09/28/...ont-back-down/

Morning Bell: Hollywood Steps Up in “Won’t Back Down”

A new movie opens in theaters today that couldn’t be more timely. The school year is hitting its stride, and the teachers union in Chicago just captured the national spotlight by strong-arming that city to meet its demands—at the expense of students and taxpayers.

The time is ripe for a story like Won’t Back Down, starring Maggie Gyllenhaal and Viola Davis as mothers who can’t stand to watch their school fail any longer.

Gyllenhaal’s character is a single mom advocating for better educational opportunities for her child. Davis plays a teacher in the school who wants to improve it. This is a crucial partnership: parents and teachers working together to create a better future for students. While teachers unions have already denounced the movie, Heritage education expert Lindsey Burke has urged that criticizing unions and criticizing teachers are not one and the same.

Let's see the teachers union produce a movie of their own. I wonder what the message would be?

[Tom]

Originally Posted by DJofSD

http://blog.heritage.org/2012/09/28/...ont-back-down/

Morning Bell: Hollywood Steps Up in “Won’t Back Down”



Let's see the teachers union produce a movie of their own. I wonder what the message would be?

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