The avg salary is not outrageous, but wonder how many teachers are included in this estimation? Seems that some members of the Wong lawsuit claim to need 104,000 more teachers to compare to other states. Thats part of the fiscal rub for taxpayers who don’t have children, the pension and benefits and making eaiser for teachers by reducing student/teacher ratios is a bummer, like private industry workers have it so easy. When Gov. Schwarzenegger tried to get the unions to turn to a 401K pension system to put their own money into their pot; more that the 6% the “poor” teachers found $45 million to fight that proposal, and Lord knows what a battle would be for stopping free medical for teachers families would stir up? How about a 8% match to the teachers input for pension instead of the 92% public funding!
An open letter to the edu-reformers:
You proudly display your credentials. You offer ONE solution, say it is the ONLY solution. You say we have NO time to implement your recommendations.
Hyman Rickover said stupid people ought to be dead. He pushed people out of the way and prototyped the BWR and PWR using sea water and a condenser in a submarine with a 28 ft beam. He did NOT accept the ONE solution fallacy. He found smart people and he made it work.
So, either come up with things that WORK, or get out of the way. There are others, perhaps smarter, who are READY to try to do things that will work for all parties.
Private enterprise has NEVER accepted the one solution offer. They reject it, and so should teachers and students.
The VAM model has been sold as the ONLY objective measure. Baloney.
Find another alternative, or get out of the way.
FInally, stop posting your academic credentials and produced papers. GIVE US AN ACCURACY RATE.
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The avg salary is not outrageous, but wonder how many teachers are included in this estimation? Seems that some members of the Wong lawsuit claim to need 104,000 more teachers to compare to other states. Thats part of the fiscal rub for taxpayers who don’t have children, the pension and benefits and making eaiser for teachers by reducing student/teacher ratios is a bummer, like private industry workers have it so easy. When Gov. Schwarzenegger tried to get the unions to turn to a 401K pension system to put their own money into their pot; more that the 6% the “poor” teachers found $45 million to fight that proposal, and Lord knows what a battle would be for stopping free medical for teachers families would stir up? How about a 8% match to the teachers input for pension instead of the 92% public funding!
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An open letter to the edu-reformers:
You proudly display your credentials. You offer ONE solution, say it is the ONLY solution. You say we have NO time to implement your recommendations.
Hyman Rickover said stupid people ought to be dead. He pushed people out of the way and prototyped the BWR and PWR using sea water and a condenser in a submarine with a 28 ft beam. He did NOT accept the ONE solution fallacy. He found smart people and he made it work.
So, either come up with things that WORK, or get out of the way. There are others, perhaps smarter, who are READY to try to do things that will work for all parties.
Private enterprise has NEVER accepted the one solution offer. They reject it, and so should teachers and students.
The VAM model has been sold as the ONLY objective measure. Baloney.
Find another alternative, or get out of the way.
FInally, stop posting your academic credentials and produced papers. GIVE US AN ACCURACY RATE.
Report this comment for abusive language, hate speech and profanity