Chicago teachers asking for 30% raises over next 2 years

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I support Rahm and hope he succeeds.

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I've always found the American obsession with class sizes to be bizarre. After all, Japanese/Korean schools run 50 student classes with very few administrative personnel and they do fine.

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A good teacher is much much better than a bad teacher. I mean, if you're shoveling sh**t, the best sh**t-shoveller isn't going to be 10x better than the worst (lol Alexey Stakhanov).

But teachers? Absolutely. I think the best teacher I've had did 100x more for me than the worst teacher I've had. So I think merit pay makes sense. Everyone agrees on the concept of merit pay. It's the concept of how we measure merit that people debate on. And while I do think standardized tests are not a great way to measure merit, it's non-subjective and should be at the very least one of the factors in a holistic evaluation.

That being said, the CTU is run by scumbags.