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What lucrative contracts? Teachers don't get rich by teaching...The right move is to stop agreeing to such lucrative contracts.
The ipad is a stupid idea. Tablets are useful for four things:
1. Browsing the web
2. Social networking
3. Playing games
4. Reading ebooks
And 4 really only applies for pirated ebooks since legal ebooks usually aren't significantly cheaper than paper books. You can't write a research paper on an ipad. You can't program on an ipad. Why blow $678 a student on a toy instead of dropping, say $450 on a laptop that the student could actually do work on?
What lucrative contracts? Teachers don't get rich by teaching...The right move is to stop agreeing to such lucrative contracts.
Your absolutely right Bum...I've been making this same argument to school districts for years...but for some reason, school districts think that Ipads are the ...And 4 really only applies for pirated ebooks since legal ebooks usually aren't significantly cheaper than paper books. You can't write a research paper on an ipad. You can't program on an ipad. Why blow $678 a student on a toy instead of dropping, say $450 on a laptop that the student could actually do work on?
I'm speaking from a California perspective, so my apologies if I am misspeaking. It should also be noted that Texas teachers who do not receive social security are also not paying into it. Perhaps that can be reformed. I'm not against education funding. i also don't think increasing the amount on the check is going to fix education, and shouldn't be the first step in doing so
There is some awfully bad info that people want to believe...
Writing more checks for more teachers is a must in this State.I'm speaking from a California perspective, so my apologies if I am misspeaking. It should also be noted that Texas teachers who do not receive social security are also not paying into it. Perhaps that can be reformed. I'm not against education funding
This is not California...
Uhhh Texas teachers often do pay into SS, before they decide to become teachers. And the SS payment gets greatly reduced in most cases by Texas law.
And they do pay into Medicare.
Your right on one account....the way money is spent in districts needs to be reformed and it can be used much more efficiently, but that reform has to come from the top, not the bottom...let's let experience teachers make education policies and not politicians, like they do in successful countries rich and poor around the word...I'm speaking from a California perspective, so my apologies if I am misspeaking. It should also be noted that Texas teachers who do not receive social security are also not paying into it. Perhaps that can be reformed. I'm not against education funding
Teacher starting pay is about 45K in most districts, that's not the problem...the problem is that 10 years later, that same more-experienced teacher is still only making less than 50K, twenty years later less than 55K....would you stay in a professional business were the money is so pitiful in your more experience years?
Blame the unions for that. Good an bad teachers both are on the same pay scale.
I did not say it's the problem.
The problem is more teachers. People don't stay teachers. Most are gone after 3 years. The positions don't get refilled because fast growing districts like NISD can't hire them.
The Teachers Associations in Texas are extraordinarily weak.
They have never and will not strike. It's illegal.
They are not true unions.
Jesus, the misunderstanding of education in Texas is rampant.
I support an incentive system that rewards good teachers with bonuses...but the system of measurement has to come over a period of time not just in one year...any teacher can have a bad year or two because of bad students not bad teaching...
Regardless, do you think it's correct to pay them all, good and bad, on the same pay scale based on seniority?
Well, he's not in Texas, but yeah, the misinformation in education policy is horrible...much easier to blame teachers...
This is not true either.
Teachers were rated and those considered exemplary got as much as 3000 dollars more a year. But the State took the funding away. Some teachers got grandfathered but most of them are retired. Now there is no difference.
Christ it continues... This is seriously bad stuff. The uninformed just typing off the cuff.
Most companies do that....your living back in the 80's...today, teachers are evaluated every year and if they are ineffective in the classroomthey are not resigned to a new contract...
You disagree then you agree...
Some nice irony there.
grammar check ....
No.
You are just wrong. There were incentives. Now they are gone.
And there never have been Real Unions in Texas.
What about this do you not understand?
I think it'd behoove you to use proper English when waxing poetic about education reform. That is unless you're trying to performatively make your point.
I'm in my PJs too and not in a suit....what you got on education?
You are right in that I don't know the specifics. However, every time I have seen a state attempt to add merit pay to teachers, it was the unions that caused it to never happen. You see the same thing in other industries.
Is merit pay available now, or just the grandfathered teachers?
Why did it stop? I'll bet if you research the facts, you find the unions stopped it...
What do I have on education?
....the part that starts with not blaming the teachers and unionsWhat about this do you not understand?
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