teachers Options

[brooklyneast05]

should we be able to fire teachers who have failing classes? who seem to suck at teaching? should we pay them less? should teachers with passing classes get paid more?

[brooklyneast05]

i'm one of those people who think the respect given to the teaching profession is overblown as a whole. i think in general they mostly suck and a good number are more like baby sitters than teachers. i don't think most teachers really TEACH how to learn. (whether this is because they are sucky teachers or whether this is because how our education system is set up is debatable though) i do often subscribe to that whole view about how they get summers off, a ridiculous amount of holiday vacation, get off work earlier often, can't get fired for sucking at their job, etc.

i agree about the failing class thing though, there is a lot of reasons and i don't think that's a good enough indicator to decide how good a teacher is.

i've been arguing about this a lot lately it seems. i get a lot of my views from my mom, who is a teacher. my girlfriend is getting a teaching degree and we argue all the time over the importance of teachers. she says they are important. i say in general teachers aren't important unless they are good teachers. the good teachers i had were important to my life, and they taught me how to want to learn more and how to go about learning more. the rest were disposable and i probably learned more from the book than i did from them. they were just there to make sure we didn't shank each other.


i'm interested though in how people think our education system could be improved or how we could go about making our teachers better or more effective