Users Online Now:
2,217
(
Who's On?
)
Visitors Today:
962,142
Pageviews Today:
1,604,984
Threads Today:
647
Posts Today:
11,566
04:04 PM
Directory
Adv. Search
Topics
Forum
Back to Forum
Back to Thread
REPLY TO THREAD
Subject
Chicago Teachers on strike
User Name
Font color:
Default
Dark Red
Red
Orange
Brown
Yellow
Green
Olive
Cyan
Blue
Dark Blue
Indigo
Violet
Black
Font:
Default
Verdana
Tahoma
Ms Sans Serif
In accordance with industry accepted best practices we ask that users limit their copy / paste of copyrighted material to the relevant portions of the article you wish to discuss and no more than 50% of the source material, provide a link back to the original article and provide your original comments / criticism in your post with the article.
[quote:Anonymous Coward 8798818:MV8xOTgzNjY3XzMzMzI1MDAwXzdENjg3MEMy] [quote:Anonymous Coward 19852008:MV8xOTgzNjY3XzMzMzI0NzI1XzgyQzc5NzJG] Teachers everywhere complain that they should not be evaluated on student performance measures because some factors are beyond their control. I don't know of any other job, anywhere, where an employee is guaranteed that his review or his compensation will be based on factors entirely within his or her control. Certainly not at a professional level! This argument should be thrown out entirely, with a slap at them for even daring to utter this idea. Millions of people have lost their jobs for reasons entirely beyond their control. It's time for teachers, especially the old ones, to start to experience this along with the rest of society. [/quote] You know what - life's a bitch like this. Shit happens out of your control. Trying to legislate shit out of life, are we? How well do you think that works in the long run? Shit is like energy. It can change form and it can be passed around, but you simply can't make shit go away. By delegating the shit out of these teachers' lives, you are passing it onto others. The ones being shit upon are the students, because there's a chance true teachers that put their students' well being above their own are looking for jobs in Chitown. Someone else could potentially be a better teacher that [b]would[/b] be able to get students to a level to be able to pass standardized tests. I've seen what the standardized tests look like now, and the only way a student would fail them is if that student either can't read English or has no respect for education institutions and is just purposefully trying to make it look bad. This mindset is not a product of poverty, violence, or homelessness. It is a product of either lazy or feeble teachers. Yes, I realize many good teachers feel emasculated with how easily teachers can catch flak for being as strict as can be needed. I'm not saying the teachers are wholly to blame; I'm saying I would rather see teachers striking because of the inability to discipline unruly children who aren't properly disciplined at home. That these strikers' main point lies in the changes for teacher evaluations tells me that these teachers know they could be doing a better job, found loopholes to laziness within the current evaluation guidelines, and are now worried their loopholes will be closed. These teachers need to adapt to the changing environment if they want to keep their job security. Prime example of how unions enact regression through promise of progression. [/quote]
Original Message
They were offered a 16% pay raise over 4 years. And still in this economy refused.
BTW... its democrat mayor vs democrat union...lol
[
link to news.yahoo.com
]
Pictures (click to insert)
General
Politics
Bananas
People
Potentially Offensive
Emotions
Big Round Smilies
Aliens and Space
Friendship & Love
Textual
Doom
Misc Small Smilies
Religion
Love
Random
View All Categories
|
Next Page >>