On Strike for Lesser Accountability!
And why are the Chicago teachers striking?
Union Rep says [the] concern over a new evaluation that she said would be based too heavily on students' standardized test scores, which she said would be unfair to teachers because it could not adequately account for outside factors that affect student performance, including poverty, violence and ( Read more... )
Union Rep says [the] concern over a new evaluation that she said would be based too heavily on students' standardized test scores, which she said would be unfair to teachers because it could not adequately account for outside factors that affect student performance, including poverty, violence and ( Read more... )
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Average annual salary for a school system with one of the shortest days of any major system: $74,000 before benefits, which are obviously even more ridiculous.
Administrators, $120,000
http://www.cps.edu/about_cps/at-a-glance/pages/stats_and_facts.aspx
Average family income in Chicago, $47,000.
CORRECTION: the annual salary is actually $76,000. My bad.
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That makes teaching a part time job.
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I know two high school teachers in VA, and both work many hours outside the building, mostly grading and documentation. They have to document everything these days. In an earlier generation, my mother taught elementary school for 30 years without bringing work home.
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As for after-hours work, in my home state of Mass, my kids' teachers brag about how they don't work past the clock. In fact, they press for students to have homework-free weekends. Too stressful for young minds.
Lowering of expectations for teachers leads to lower expectations for students. A race to the bottom.
But let's say there is teacher prep time and grading homework after school. So what? It's not a factory job, it's a career. A vocation. Who besides cashiers don't have outside prep?
Teachers complaining about having to work outside of school are the same ones to say they are too good for a time clock. Can't have it both ways.
Combining an hourly worker mentality, an impossible to fire profession, and above market wages, is the trifecta of entitlement.
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