“I’m a mom, and my view of public education begins and ends with the fundamental question: Is this good for children?” Brown says by phone from New York, where she lives. “In a situation where it’s the child or the adult, I’m going with the child. . . . Tenure is permanent lifetime employment. There’s no reason why anyone’s job should become untouchable for the rest of their life.” (read more)
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Good for Campbell Brown. She is doing a job that no one else wants to do.
I expect that criticism of her advocacy will come from wealthy liberals whose children attend private schools, and from teacher union members who greatly benefit from tenure.
http://www.wnd.com/2014/07/hey-obama-wheres-my-mortgage-payment/
Colorado Levityers should check out that article:
Gilbert has scheduled the premiere of “There’s No Place Like Utopia” Friday at the Regal UA Colorado Center Stadium 9 & IMAX at 2000 South Colorado Blvd. in Denver.
“Our strategy is to follow the same formula as we did in 2012 with D’Souza’s documentary ‘2016: Obama’s America,’” Randy Slaughter of Rocky Mountain Pictures, the film’s distributor, told WND.
“But with Joel Gilbert’s new film, instead of opening in Houston, we felt Denver was the better city to launch ‘Utopia.’
Get rid of tenure and the teacher's union, and public education will improve.
Not only get rid of the teacher's union, give control back to the local Boards and States. Get the Feds out of public education. All they do is create more ridiculous rules and regulations that impede the ability of those good teachers to actually teach. Give the teachers and the local schools flexibility and the control to be able to actually teach.
I believe that there should be a testing of ALL teachers as to their competency not only in the subjects that they are teaching but in general competency. The appalling lack of verbal skills, knowledge in math, geography and practically everything else is shameful. We have teachers who are profoundly ignorant, some who are downright stupid, teaching young children who will grow up to be just as ignorant and stupid as the teachers are. If I were QUEEN I would mandate a test at least every other year and if the teachers fail it......boom.....you're outta here.
I know this is a generalization and there are many bright, dedicated, hardworking teachers out there....>BUT....in my financial advisory career teachers have been some of the stupidest, most dimwitted people I have ever met.
Maybe she's seen all the respect Sharyl Atkisson gets and would like some, too.
And what DBQ said.
DBQ
"Get the Feds out of public education."
Absolutely. Just one more layer of bureaucracy and taxation.
Of all the things that should come under the auspices of states' rights, education is among the top of the list.
I wonder if tenure will vanish when education bubble pops. The existing tenured will naturally be grandfathered in.
I taught in middle school and high school for nine years as a second career. The last two years I did not have tenure because I changed school districts and was in a non-tenure position. That did not lead me to teach better, it showed me the need to kiss a$$ better. My students had better scores on standardized tests than others in the same category, but that did not matter. I realize that tenure allows some unqualified teachers to stay on, but without it, what you get is cronyism and favoritism, not competence. I was let go in order for the new principal to hire someone he knew and liked better from his previous school.
Public education is not set up to recognize achievement. They just don't believe in it.
If I had school-aged children today, I would home school them.
Ken, yes. I am one of those introverted people that need time alone. For my kids'sake, I sent them to public school. With mixed results.
When my daughter was in elementary the teachers would be so nice during testing time. They would supply breakfasts (from donating parents), and say how important it was that the they try hard.
I agree completely with Campbell Brown on public school teachers NOT having tenure. No public employee should be guaranteed a job for simply showing up, it should be objectively based on performance.
I am against seniority too (in a blanket sense). I do not want so see good teachers dumped because they make more than newer teachers. But Administrations should have some flexibility on hiring and firing based on the best results for the students.
There is zero, I repeat ZERO reason for tenure. It's an indefensible practice. It is the only power base that the teachers unions have. I'd like to see them and all public employee unions eradicated for all time. Their time is coming. Their excuses are run out. They have nothing left.
I've said this for years. And by years, I mean years and years ago (well before, even, I had a kid) and to my father (a tenured professor). You wanna talk hard?
I'm not saying it's easy later. What I am saying is that it was not easy quite early, and it hasn't got easier later. It's just that some of us started...
...a whole lot earlier.
; (
Of course, I've also questioned some of the over-love for private schools for many years, and also the over-love for public charter schools more recently.
So, there's that, too, and therefore have at it, by golly.
Abstractions meet reality.
Realities meet abstraction.
Day-um! I'm feeling all dispassionate 'n' all. Well, y'know how it goes... .
Bullshit reigns, and mostly lorded over by the more smart (though less intelligent) who make sure that their kids are the toast that gets buttered as opposed to the kids that get burnt.
Ha ha.
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I don't like those people whose preference is to burn other people. In fact, I despise them for the strength they find in others who are, in fact, weak and dishonest, though loud and persistent.
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