On Jul 24, 2010, at 8:43 AM, James Leveque wrote:
> Where is all this policy going, anyway? So Rhee fires over 300 teachers and
> admin support and they replace them with, who...? I know that Obama talks as
> if highly skilled teachers grow on trees, but Rhee, DC's mayor, Dept. of Ed.
> etc. must know that the teachers hired to replace those who got the ax are
> going to be mostly young and inexperienced and probably aren't likely to get
> any better scores. So what happens when 200+ of those new teachers don't
> have high enough scores? Do they get fired too? Do we just have year after
> year of mass firings, or is there some kind of endgame?
Well, Goldman Sachs supposedly fires the bottom 15% or so every year. Maybe that's the model?
And new teachers are cheap and exploitable. If you think that they just want to produce the same crappy educational results while spending less money, this is one way to go about it. Charters, too.
Doug