Reply #39: Teachers held **accountable**? I thought everybody was crowing about his *pragmatism*? [View All]

[BlooInBloo]

:rofl:

If teachers were held accountable, about 90% of them would be summarily fired, on the grounds of simple stupidity.

Don't worry about the accountability-non-starter, just incentivize SMART people to become teachers:

(1) Quadruple teacher salaries immediately,
(2) Remove barriers to entry for people without so-called "education degrees".
(3) Make professional advancement contingent on, among other things, gaining advanced degrees in a non-education field.
(4) Substantially improve teaching conditions (time committment especially).

The idiots who are turning our kids into idiots will be smoothly supplanted by smart people, for whom teaching will now be a *practical*, as well as a noble option.

Since the teacher's unions is an active force for embedding stupidity deeper and deeper into our country, solve the problem from the OTHER direction - an infusion of smart folks!