| Welcome to The New Coffee Room. We hope you enjoy your visit. You're currently viewing our forum as a guest. This means you are limited to certain areas of the board and there are some features you can't use. If you join our community, you'll be able to access member-only sections, and use many member-only features such as customizing your profile, sending personal messages, and voting in polls. Registration is simple, fast, and completely free. Join our community! If you're already a member please log in to your account to access all of our features: |
| I don't know who to root for! | |
|---|---|
| Tweet Topic Started: Sep 9 2011, 11:49 AM (116 Views) | |
| Luke's Dad | Sep 9 2011, 11:49 AM Post #1 |
![]()
Emperor Pengin
|
http://www.suntimes.com/7558652-417/teachers-union-president-says-mayor-emanuel-exploded-at-her.html Oh wait, yes I do.
Sorry Dol and other dedicated teaching professionals, and while I freely admit that many teachers in many districts are underpaid... |
| The problem with having an open mind is that people keep trying to put things in it. | |
![]() |
|
| Red Rice | Sep 9 2011, 11:58 AM Post #2 |
|
HOLY CARP!!!
|
Institute merit- rather than seniority-based pay and benefits. Fire unsatisfactory teachers, rather than coddle them. That way, we could afford to pay great teachers more. |
|
Civilisation, I vaguely realized then - and subsequent observation has confirmed the view - could not progress that way. It must have a greater guiding principle to survive. To treat it as a carcase off which each man tears as much as he can for himself, is to stand convicted a brute, fit for nothing better than a jungle existence, which is a death-struggle, leading nowhither. I did not believe that was the human destiny, for Man individually was sane and reasonable, only collectively a fool. I hope the gunner of that Hun two-seater shot him clean, bullet to heart, and that his plane, on fire, fell like a meteor through the sky he loved. Since he had to end, I hope he ended so. But, oh, the waste! The loss! - Cecil Lewis | |
![]() |
|
| Jolly | Sep 9 2011, 03:06 PM Post #3 |
![]()
Geaux Tigers!
|
The hard part is determining merit. Who is better...the teacher that does well in an affluent school district, or a decent teacher in an inner city school district? |
| The main obstacle to a stable and just world order is the United States.- George Soros | |
![]() |
|
| Mikhailoh | Sep 9 2011, 04:15 PM Post #4 |
|
If you want trouble, find yourself a redhead
|
How 'bout this team, LD? C'mon ... you know you want to. |
|
Once in his life, every man is entitled to fall madly in love with a gorgeous redhead - Lucille Ball | |
![]() |
|
| John D'Oh | Sep 9 2011, 05:01 PM Post #5 |
|
MAMIL
|
This is always the difficult point, and it seems to get missed in so much of the discussion. When I trained to be a teacher, we spent time visiting local schools - just about the best maths teacher I saw was a guy running a department in an inner city in Manchester. We also visited some very muckety-muck grammar schools out in the leafy suburbs, who would inevitably get grades out of all proportion to those of the inner city comprehensive. Because of better teachers? Not in a million years. |
| What do you mean "we", have you got a mouse in your pocket? | |
![]() |
|
| Horace | Sep 9 2011, 05:28 PM Post #6 |
|
HOLY CARP!!!
|
Never in my life had a teacher who made any particular impression on me for better or worse. Way more lip service paid to the idea of teachers-as-difference-makers than reality supports, I think. Parenting and culture are clearly the dominant factors in what students get out of school.
|
| As a good person, I implore you to do as I, a good person, do. Be good. Do NOT be bad. If you see bad, end bad. End it in yourself, and end it in others. By any means necessary, the good must conquer the bad. Good people know this. Do you know this? Are you good? | |
![]() |
|
| « Previous Topic · The New Coffee Room · Next Topic » |








Way more lip service paid to the idea of teachers-as-difference-makers than reality supports, I think. Parenting and culture are clearly the dominant factors in what students get out of school.
6:53 AM Jul 11