Fire all Teachers 3131 Responses

Last post: 2 years, 3 months ago | Thread started: Feb 24, 10, 9:03 a.m.

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• scarabin

  "The firings come over the district's concern that teachers refused to spend more time with students to improve test scores."

  

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  Dog-earFeb 24, 10, 9:11 a.m. – Permalink

• ideaist

  I love this type of drastic thinking; not enough people take risks and make decisions like this.

  It always becomes about the jobs and maintaining status quo rather than long term results and the overall good of kids, teachers and parents!

  

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  Dog-earFeb 24, 10, 9:13 a.m. – Permalink

• PonyBoy

  it's a shame you can't fire the parents - as that is easily where the blame should reside...

  ... learning starts in the classroom - but doesn't understanding come from practice (aka - homework... studying... ... things parents are responsible and expected to 'administrate' so-to-speak)

  • completely agree with you sir– OSFA1/4

    <– BattleAxe2/4

    <– juhls3/4

    quite true too– ismith4/4

  

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  Dog-earFeb 24, 10, 9:15 a.m. – Permalink

• OSFA

  it's your job to teach and make sure kids get an education and don't. If 80% of your class fails and is below an average level, YOU are the problem, and yes, you have to work extra.

  If any of us say I know the client expects this presentation tomorrow and that we can lose the account, but I wont work extra hours and leave, we will be on the same boat...

  • I like the idea, but this would mean no one would choose to work in areas with high poverty rates.– lukus_W1/4

    actually, there are real teachers out there who love their job and take it seriously– OSFA2/4

    oh-please, have you not seen the movie Dangerous Minds?? hahaa– OSFA3/4

    Michelle Pfeiffer was the exception - can't all be expected to live up to that very high standard.– lukus_W4/4

  

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  Dog-earFeb 24, 10, 9:16 a.m. – Permalink

• ukit

  They should have fired the fucking students, that's where the problem is, those retarded little bastards

  • hahahah!!– PonyBoy1/4

    +1– pantone2/4

    i was going to write this :-)– identity3/4

    lol– juhls4/4

  

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  Dog-earFeb 24, 10, 9:17 a.m. – Permalink

• GeorgesII

  it's never the parent's fault when kids don't want to do shit,
  they always blame, video games, internet, drugs, now the teachers.
  I'm with you pony, I wish we could fire the parents sometimes

  • Fire the kids– ukit

  

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  Dog-earFeb 24, 10, 9:18 a.m. – Permalink

• eieio

  Why not pay them more?

  

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  Dog-earFeb 24, 10, 9:18 a.m. – Permalink

• lukus_W

  High poverty-rates generally correlate with low expectations and low educational performance.

  Solve the economic problems - and it will be easier to solve the rest.

  • yeah the teachers are taking on a lot of social issues, I don't see why they should be expected to handle all of that as well as regular lessons– eieio1/2

    ...regular lessons.– eieio2/2

  

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  Dog-earFeb 24, 10, 9:19 a.m. – Permalink

• BattleAxe

  yes and schools get plenty of chances to improve test scores so it is not like this was done from one day to the next : the district will give parents a choice to pick a school if a school fails to meet test score standards , and in all likely most of those teachers will get approved transfers

  the real question is what next, now you fired everyone who do you bring in

  • Michelle Pfeifer?– ukit

  

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  Dog-earFeb 24, 10, 9:20 a.m. – Permalink

• identity

  Let's cure cancer and AIDS too...

  ...sorry

  • *high fives– lukus_W

  

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  Dog-earFeb 24, 10, 9:20 a.m. – Permalink

• jerseyred

  this is a high school - most of these kids are close to being adults and they can't get their shit together? These teachers are so underpaid, work a full day, and are expected to spend MORE time?

  The point is that grades don't lie, it's not like a teacher "gave" a kid a grade, that child "earned" that grade - just another example of a generation passing the blame, so when 80% of those kids end up unemployed and can't find a job who should we blame, the employers?

  • no, we'll blame whoever is in the whitehouse/congress...– identity1/2

    work a full day? doesn't their day end @ 3:15 plus they get summers and national holidays off.– fooler22/2

  

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  Dog-earFeb 24, 10, 9:21 a.m. – Permalink

• PonyBoy

  "At $53,473*, Rhode Island was ranked 9th in the nation for average teacher salaries in 2005..."
  —teacher-world.com

  • //Wow, they must be drunk on Champagne all the time with those incredible salaries.– DrBombay1/4

    how is Rhode Island's cost of living compared to that salary ?– BattleAxe2/4

    ridiculously underpaid for sure– PonyBoy3/4

    top ten percent sounds good– scarabin4/4

  

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  Dog-earFeb 24, 10, 9:22 a.m. – Permalink

• lukus_W

  For homework, we should all re-watch series 4 of The Wire.

  • ha! great season!– PonyBoy

  

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  Dog-earFeb 24, 10, 9:23 a.m. – Permalink

• eieio

  its kind of the reverse in terms of policing young poor people but equally redundant. They get less teachers and more cops. Neither solves the real issues they're struggling through. I think the school boards and government social programs need to get funded properly rather than dealing with it the way beurocrats like to deal with things... cuts and cops.

  • these classrooms probably have 40 kids– jerseyred1/2

    exactly– eieio2/2

  

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  Dog-earFeb 24, 10, 9:24 a.m. – Permalink

• OSFA

  I see what you mean jersey, but a kid can't do good on a test or in school if he/she doesnt have a good foundation, guiding, discipline, etc...

  • "do good?" Are you from Rhode Island?
    – jerseyred

  

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  Dog-earFeb 24, 10, 9:25 a.m. – Permalink

• scarabin

  fire the poor

  • ha– DrBombay

  

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  Dog-earFeb 24, 10, 9:26 a.m. – Permalink

• OSFA

  That's why I was home-schooled and look at me, I'm fucking perfect!

  

  • awesome.– whatsup

  

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  Dog-earFeb 24, 10, 9:27 a.m. – Permalink

• d_rek

  soylent green the poor

  

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  Dog-earFeb 24, 10, 9:28 a.m. – Permalink

• d_rek

  

  • it's not quantity but quality– whatsup1/2

    hmmm buddy... I don't think we got that one either...– OSFA2/2

  

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  Dog-earFeb 24, 10, 9:33 a.m. – Permalink

• jerseyred

  There is a sad fact that most schools have a child study team that classifies the kids learning abilities, these kids take advantage of those classifications to get out of working hard. Because of ADD, etc. the school's administration create an environment where kids do LESS work because of some classification based off of when they were young. So many kids are classified today that they get extra time for tests, cannot take off due to spelling, and they get extra days off from school excused.

  Majority of the time school administration and school psychologists get in the way of any real teaching opting to be friends with the kids and treat them like babies.

  • Why do some kids work hard, and some kids not bother? What's the defining factor?– lukus_W

  

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  Dog-earFeb 24, 10, 9:39 a.m. – Permalink