Sun Sentinel's Chan Lowe cartoon says it all about new FL teacher bill.

[madfloridian]

Chan Lowe: Teacher pay reform

Let's give the Republicans in the state legislature the benefit of the doubt.

Let's say that they really are interested in improving the quality of education of Florida's schoolchildren, and not taking advantage of a fiscal crisis to do some union-busting.

In their short-sightedness, they're not thinking like the rat in the Skinner box, to recycle a simile.

If you make someone's livelihood dependent upon whether some snot-nosed kid is going to be able to answer the questions on a test correctly, then obviously that person is going to teach to the test, teach to the test (write that 100 times on the blackboard).

And those are the honest ones. We've already busted some bad-apple educators for giving their kids an unfair leg up with the FCATs. What makes anyone think the problem would diminish once people's actual salaries depended on the outcome?

Thanks, Chan Lowe.

[madfloridian]

1. A kick for Chan Lowe.

He is right about teaching to the test.

[leveymg]

2. 5th Rec

[madfloridian]

3. Write it 100 times on the blackboard...

teach to the test.

[zorahopkins]

4. "Snot Nosed Kid"??!!

"If you make someone's livelihood dependent upon whether some snot-nosed kid is going to be able to answer the questions on a test"

Please tell me educators do not view students as "snot nosed kids".

I think most educators view their students as precious gifts, eager and able to learn -- NOT "snot-nosed kids".

[madfloridian]

5. Uh, Chan Lowe is a cartoonist

Where's your sense of humor? :rofl:

[Starry Messenger]

6. Coloring-in dots isn't learning

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