Comments on: Accountability http://www.texasedspectator.com/2007/02/05/accountability-2/ Comments on the state of education in Texas Mon, 04 Jan 2010 22:53:04 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.1.3 By: texased http://www.texasedspectator.com/2007/02/05/accountability-2/comment-page-1/#comment-377 texased Fri, 23 Mar 2007 13:28:35 +0000 http://www.texasedspectator.com/2007/02/05/accountability-2/#comment-377 That's the quandary isn't it? I just posted about the pay scale of a local school district. We've just gone through a salary war for new teachers with the starting pay going up to $42,000. But then it goes no where. I wonder how many teachers would be willing to trade a set 0.28% pay raise for everyone with the possibility of individuals earning up to 5.0% depending on performance? That’s the quandary isn’t it? I just posted about the pay scale of a local school district. We’ve just gone through a salary war for new teachers with the starting pay going up to $42,000. But then it goes no where. I wonder how many teachers would be willing to trade a set 0.28% pay raise for everyone with the possibility of individuals earning up to 5.0% depending on performance?

]]> By: misedjj http://www.texasedspectator.com/2007/02/05/accountability-2/comment-page-1/#comment-378 misedjj Wed, 21 Mar 2007 21:17:23 +0000 http://www.texasedspectator.com/2007/02/05/accountability-2/#comment-378 But setting public schools up as BUSINESSES is exactly what government teachers and their "private" unions argue against, not for! You're homeschooling in Texas and I'm homeschooling (unschooling actually) in FL -- two politically similar states when it comes to schooling -- and neither of us argues against the very existence of public schools, right? It's just that they don't make it easy to support them either . . . Right now our state legislature is trying (again, sigh) to adopt some sort of performance pay for teachers, and organized teachers are nobly opposing it as if they were factory workers and all their work was interchangeably the same. To consider extentuating circumstances and evaluate them individually is exactly what they refuse to allow. They call it "divisive." Well, can't argue with that. JJ But setting public schools up as BUSINESSES is exactly what government teachers and their “private” unions argue against, not for! You’re homeschooling in Texas and I’m homeschooling (unschooling actually) in FL — two politically similar states when it comes to schooling — and neither of us argues against the very existence of public schools, right? It’s just that they don’t make it easy to support them either . . .

Right now our state legislature is trying (again, sigh) to adopt some sort of performance pay for teachers, and organized teachers are nobly opposing it as if they were factory workers and all their work was interchangeably the same. To consider extentuating circumstances and evaluate them individually is exactly what they refuse to allow. They call it “divisive.” Well, can’t argue with that.
JJ

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