Menino bails on Boston School kids to save Obama’s bacon SCOTT BROWN DUMB

seascraper   |   Fri, Sep 14, 2012 10:25 AM EST

The new power accorded to principals is not to give first year teachers a raise if they suck. Teachers wills till be assigned according to seniority to new positions, so new good teachers get lopped off when cutbacks occur while the old dead wood stays.

We know that good teachers can get through 18 months of material in a year. Bad teachers get through 6 months of material. This is not related to poverty or social factors because these results can be seen in the same school. Teachers cannot be evaluated according to results so the ones who everybody knows are terrible cannot be removed.

Everybody knows who the terrible teachers are at the BPS. The teachers know, the kids certainly know. Obama is embarrassed by the Chicago teachers strike and a Boston strike would be doubly so. Instead of fighting for the kids, Menino has bailed.

 


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  1. SCOTT BROWN DUMB
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    Yes. I totally agree!

    hrs-kevin   @   Fri 14 Sep 10:47 AM

  2. What?
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    How is a local strike connected to Obama?

    Why does the headline say in part, SCOTT BROWN DUMB, when the diary has nothing to do with Scott Brown?

    christopher   @   Sat 15 Sep 9:23 AM

  3. You're completely, factually incorrect.
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    It was signed into law this summer that seniority would not be the first criteria when laying off teachers.

    Under the terms of the compromise, nontenured teachers would still be dismissed before tenured teachers, during layoffs, but in all other cases performance would have to carry more weight in layoff decisions than seniority. The compromise allows for districts and unions to bargain the exact details. The compromise also permits districts to maintain some ability to transfer teachers; the ballot initiative would have required all transfers to be approved by principals. Also of interest: The proposal would shield individual teachers’ performance ratings from public disclosures, though aggregate reporting would be required.

    mark-bail   @   Sat 15 Sep 9:41 AM

  4. Huh
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    “We know that good teachers can get through 18 months of material in a year. ”

    Anybody who can complete time travel deserves salaries in the eight figures. “Good teachers” cut and slice 18 months of material into ten months. Really good ones do it in a way that it’s hard to notice. A expectation that teachers can do the literally impossible, and the presumption that they ought to continue to do the impossible while being attacked for any number of things is oddly never extended to bankers, doctors, lawyers, engineers, or other professions.

    sabutai   @   Sat 15 Sep 9:55 AM

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