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Originally posted by kddani
Not all unions are the same. I do see some of the importance of unions when I work on files every day of injured workers similar to your father. But teaching unions deal with a lot different subject matter than those of blue collar workers.
But are they necessary for teaching? Can they get too much power? In my opinion, they're not really necessary for teaching. And I do think they can get too much power when they offer too many protections, such as when the pay isn't commessurate (spelling way off on that one...) with performance. When a teacher can continually be lazy and not make any effort and still get pay raises.
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Determining a teachers pay depending on their performance is an issue in California right now. My question is, how can you do that fairly? Do you tie it to student performance? That doesn't seem right. I teach almost 200 high school students, many of whom don't care what about school. It doesn't seem to make a difference what I do, they still do nothing.
Or, do you tie it to teacher evaluations? If that's the case, you could get an administrator who doesn't like you, which would hinder a pay raise as well.
I love being a teacher, even though its tough at times and frustrating. I work extremely hard for my 37,000 a year. (I don't have a masters degree, but have almost 45 post graduate units).