Chicago teachers strike

[The Dharma Bum]

The problem is the "solutions" they keep proposing do nothing but pit all of the staff against one another. They should be encouraging them to work together.

The results would be far better. These are schools, not the Thunderdome.

[Divinity11]

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[Hyperion]

Outside of private academies for the uber-rich (tuition in excess of $10,000), I don't know of a single private school that pays more than public schools.

There's nothing wrong with some merit-based pay. The majority of teachers I've talked to are very open to the suggestion. I know I personally would like the challenge, and it would get some more bad teachers out of the system. But it has to be carefully constructed. And so far, most merit-based proposals are exclusively tied to testing. Considerations have to be made for troubled children, 504, ELL, new teachers, deaths in the student's family, how the child performed last year, etc. For poor districts, teaching to the test can be hard. For other districts, such a system will reduce the quality of education because you're teaching to the test instead of going above and beyond.

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