How much is SCRG and Howard “the money man” paying to have you continue to attack our children?

Don’t deny it. Yes, you’re attacking children! Particularly those who need help the most. You care nothing that your voucher scam would leave behind those who need help the most. Vouchers fix nothing.

First, fix real issues facing public education. Then we’ll talk about your voucher tax scam. First, fix the shameful “minimally adequate” standard. Then fix the poverty, fix the latent (and overt) racism and fix the host of other social ills they cause. Comments wee willie? :)

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Wasting Away in Voucherville

I don’t actually believe that most instructors teaching their subject matter could actually compete in the marketplace. Of course, commercial entities are always quick to fork over the “honorariums” to chairs at high profile universities for the public relations perception.

Throwing money at education doesn’t educate; never has never will.

The basic social fabric is the problem. But admittedly, in this day and age you have to play the “educator’s game” or fail to attract meaningful jobs (which can pay back the over-priced 4-6 years of education.)

And South Carolina, just doesn’t know how to play the game.

Swing by the King Kamehameha Club sometime… have a Mai Thai on the house.

Again, thanks for

The idea of merit based pay isn’t necessarily a bad one, but how do you make it fair? Teachers can’t demonstrate performance solely based on test scores, the usual measure of teacher quality. We have different kids from year to year, and each class is different across the same grade level.

I know I am a strong teacher – my students always show tremendous growth – but I also know this year’s test scores may be a little lower than last year’s. That doesn’t mean I slacked off, just that these kids weren’t at the same starting point as in years past, in addition to a larger-than-usual class size, and I wasn’t able to go as far with them (although, again, using the portfolios I keep, I am able to show growth over the course of the year).

Comparing these kids’ scores to their scores last year wouldn’t work either, given that they take different levels of PACT. How do you propose to fairly select the “good” teachers that deserve a bonus?

PS – I prefer cash, not a trip to the Rejuvenation Center.

Actually Sic’s dad is a 38-year public educator at the University of South Carolina. And unlike our K-12 and higher ed messes, his program is actually one of the nation’s elite.

And we don’t really blame teachers, we blame the idiots at the State Department who saddle them with all the things you mentioned above … and more. Oh, and we also blame the taxpayer-supported lobbying and political groups who then turn around and whine about legitimate private sector contributions.

We just couldn’t resist having a little fun w/ this, that’s all …

One thing we do want to point out, teacher incentives in SC should be based on merit, not some national board certification B.S. If a teacher is doing a good job educating his or her kids, then he or she should be rewarded. Of course until we stop moving the goalposts and fix our ass-backward and expensive testing methods, we’ll never know for sure who’s learning what.

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