Reply #56: I never endorsed a "score" protocol.... [View All]

[catnhatnh]

and am not sure what the proper metric would be. But I worked a lifetime in the non-scholastic arena and have seen all teachers more highly paid and more highly secure (until recently) than I was at a journeyman level of my career. As a less guaranteed worker, whose performance was more closely tied to day to day employment I think back on "teachers" who were in fact degreed morons who collected easy checks. Where I worked you were judged every day on performance whereas you will have to admit that many with lesser skills in your proffession were judged on attendance.My best teacher was a sixth grade teacher who eventually introduced a program that had him teaching environmental science to the other five grades once a week in the sixties...But in both third and fourth grade my teachers were both close to certifiable including one who pulled students hair.I'm betting you are good, but until teachers like Mrs. Manson (real name) are driven out I remain skeptical of the process.