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Originally posted by Rudey
The unions should be destroyed and I will be happy to see many municipalities move to pay teachers based on performance rather than tenure. That would be great.
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I agree. I don't have a solution as to how to determine teacher performance but I definitely think that their salaries should be based upon both tenure and performance. Almost every job out there is performance-based. If I don't meet client expectations, if I don't meet my deadlines, if I just suck at what I do, then I won't get a raise. Plain and simple. I've had a ton of teachers who didn't teach and still kept their job and got a pay raise. The worst was my Spanish II in high school. She had a speech impediment where she would literally choke as she spoke. She had to pause after every syllable so she sounded like this: "My...name...is...Sen...ora...Blan...co. I...am...your...Span...ish...teach...er." Mix that with an incredibly thick accent and her awful choking noises after each sentence and you'll have a good idea of what I had to endure for the year. My mom begged the school guidance counselors to switch me into another class but they were all full. I learned absolutely nothing in that class because I couldn't understand her. How could you have someone teaching a foreign language who can't even speak?!?!?! It doesn't make sense. She realized how frustrated students were getting so she just gave up after awhile. She devoted 30 minutes of her class to doing stuff out of workbook and the other 30 minutes were 'study hall' where we did homework for our other classes. When the students who were in her class took Spanish III the next year, we were all so far behind that our Spanish III stayed after-school to tutor us.
Ms. Blanco is still teaching at my high school. The county is so desperate for Spanish teachers that they've kept her there. My Spanish III teacher is also working there. Since they both have the same number of years experience, they get paid the same. My Spanish III teacher should get paid more but she doesn't. She spends her time after school helping the students and she's a great teacher. Ms. Blanco teachers her students nothing. If they worked in the business field, Ms. Blanco's ass would've been out the door a long time ago while my Spanish III teacher would've had a raise and a promotion.