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Skriven 2005-03-12 02:37:36 av Ed Hulett (1:123/789.0)
   Kommentar till text 9829 av VERN HUMPHREY (1:123/140)
Ärende: Another wonderful public
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VERN HUMPHREY -> ED HULETT wrote:
 VH>>> "No tests!  No tests!  No comparing schools!" :-)

 EH>> Here in Washington state the legislature passed a bill a few years ago
that
 EH>> made it mandatory for all children to pass what they named the WASL test
bef
 EH>> they could graduate. The teacher's unions have been having fits since.
They
 EH>> claim that the tests are "racist", but offer no evidence to back that
claim.
 EH>> guess they figure that all tests are racist since the tests expect all
child
 EH>> to attain a minimum level of learning. The teachers must think that
minoriti
 EH>> aren't smart enough to attain that level.

 VH> The tests discriminate against those people who weren't smart or
 VH> energetic enough to get a real job, and wound up teaching. :-)

That they do. :-)

 EH>> These are the same teachers' unions (WEA and NTF) that demand that
teachers
 EH>> poor districts get paid the same as those teaching in large wealthy
district
 EH>> They cry for more money for education, and then they trun around and go
on
 EH>> strike the day school begins in September for more pay.

 VH> I have always wondered at this idea that if you have an incompetent
 VH> teacher, you can improve them by paying them more.

It hasn't worked yet. :-\

 EH>> The legislature is now contemplating running the school year out to 12
month
 EH>> and have half the kids go from Sept. to June and others from say May to
 EH>> February. The teachers are hot about that, too.

 VH> Now THAT is a good idea.  If the schools were run by private industry,
 VH> that's how it would be done.  It amounts to a 33% increase in
 VH> efficiency.

A good friend of mine lives in Preston, Idaho. The public school system is run
exactly that way. They have twin daughters who when going to school here before
moving there, would play tricks on the teachers by pretending to be each other.
Once they started school in Preston, the school district put one in the Sept.
to June and the other in the May to Feb classes. They tried to trade places a
couple times, but their mother caught on immediately. She told them that if
they did it again she'd change their names perminantly. They looked at each
other and said, "eewwwwwwww!" That was the last time they tried that. :-)

They were both 4.0 students and have since graduated, finished college and
married.

I can't understand why teachers don't want to be 33% more effecient. It boggles
the mind.

Ed


Ed

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