Re: Supreme Court Votes to Limit the Use of Race in Integrat
06-29-2007, 06:08 AM
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Re: Supreme Court Votes to Limit the Use of Race in Integrat
06-30-2007, 06:12 AM
Yes,because the problem is bad teachers.
Good teachers can simultaneously teach 40+ students in a single class, and keep track of the personal needs of students in eight or nine classes at a time.
Good teachers can magically transform texts that are years (or decades) out of date with the transmutation powers they learned in teacher school.
We know that good teachers are willing to accept some of the most abysmal pays in the world for some of the hardest jobs. We certainly aren't driving teachers out of the profession and into anything where they could earn a living wage. We aren't forcing teachers to buy their own supplies, nosiree!
It's all those horrible, horrible bad teacher's fault!
Do you have any opinions that are not spoonfed to you be Limbaugh and Coulter?
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Re: Supreme Court Votes to Limit the Use of Race in Integrat
06-30-2007, 11:20 PM
Well, he certainly can't be getting it from Limbaugh. Rush has more than one thing he thinks could be done to improve schools.
The most common one seems to be, give teachers the power to throw out students who purposely disrupt the class. Which sounds like a good idea to *me* at least...
But if you don't think there are some teachers that schools would be better off without... you must have gone to some really good schools. '.'
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Re: Supreme Court Votes to Limit the Use of Race in Integrat
07-01-2007, 03:12 AM
Of course there are bad teachers. There are bad people in every profession.
However blaming the state of your education on bad teachers is like blaming the state of your health care system on bad doctors. It's blatant and deliberate scapegoating.
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Re: Supreme Court Votes to Limit the Use of Race in Integrat
07-01-2007, 04:07 AM
It's also worth noting - the problem often has more to do with not having *enough* teachers, rather than having bad teachers - both because we're a bit short on people who want to be teachers and because there's not enough money in many of the local budgets to hire enough of them. Indeed, teachers almost never start out bad. They start out good, and then the job breaks them over time. If you want to fix the problem of bad teachers (which is, indeed, a good and worthwhile goal) then the best way to go about it is to figure out how to keep the good teachers we've got from breaking, and let the bad ones drop out over time. It's certainly a better technique than firing all of the bad teachers immediately, and then turning with innocent eyes to the good teachers and blithely expecting them to handle class sizes half again as large without folding.
