Obama booed by some NEA teachers

[DownWithTheLeft]

Wow, paying people based on how well they do their job? Good thing they booed him, what a horrendous idea

[DownWithTheLeft]

We must get rid of tenure and destroy the teachers' unions.

That is the solution, the rest is really useful.  Although I highly disagree that we should pay $150k+ to people who "work" 180 days a year in most cases.

[DownWithTheLeft]

We must get rid of tenure and destroy the teachers' unions.

That is the solution, the rest is really useful.  Although I highly disagree that we should pay $150k+ to people who "work" 180 days a year in most cases.

Well if it's Arkansas, cut it down to 100K per year for the uber mensch teaches. .  In Manhattan or LA or SF, 150K per year, is barely enough to live a middle class life style.

That still seems kind of high, what are current rates?  I know the highest paid non-supervisor/other administrator in the district (minus coaching money) makes around $95,000.  And we're a blue ribbon district 7 miles from NYC

[DownWithTheLeft]

You don't get it. You are not going to attract the best and the brightest, unless their is a solid upper middle class life style at the end of the rainbow. Paying what I suggest is essential, just as firing the underperformers (perhaps a near majority of what is now the despoiled public commons), is equally as essential.

I understand your point, but are suggesting $150k as a max salary or a starting salary?  I could understand a teacher that has performed well and by a teacher for a decade or so making $150k, but not starting out, where would the ceiling be?  $300k+?  I think that would cripple the taxpayers considering the mess my town is already in  (although a lot of that comes from overpayed police)

[DownWithTheLeft]

You don't get it. You are not going to attract the best and the brightest, unless their is a solid upper middle class life style at the end of the rainbow. Paying what I suggest is essential, just as firing the underperformers (perhaps a near majority of what is now the despoiled public commons), is equally as essential.

I understand your point, but are suggesting $150k as a max salary or a starting salary?  I could understand a teacher that has performed well and by a teacher for a decade or so making $150k, but not starting out, where would the ceiling be?  $300k+?  I think that would cripple the taxpayers considering the mess my town is already in  (although a lot of that comes from overpayed police)

Correct, it is a max.

Now that I will agree with you on

[DownWithTheLeft]

The SAT tests reading comprehension and verbal skills, and that is what it is all about. If you don't have that, you have nothing.

SATs suck, those test take so long to sit through.  And I was shooting for a goddamn 2000 and scored a 1990