No, you read something better than the self serving claims and defences of the person's own work. And, remember that her acquiescence to vouchers was not part of her theory on how to save failing schools. It came as a response to parents (who had many disagreements with her) and to the fact of inadequate education budget. Also, weakening the teaching profession is a direction with which I totally disagree. Teaching needs to be a profession, not just hired help. Teachers are well educated and thus have many options. Selecting only those without professional interest, those who can not find another job, and the few who are ready to sacrifice their financial wellbeing is NOT good enough. Also, it leads to a staff that can not recognize and select strong candidates. These are the root reasons for the push to make it even easier to fire teachers. Again, get off this idea of selecting bad schools and system failures as examples of what we should want. We do not want failure.
Until you educate yourself on the merits and positive data of the voucher system, low income parental choice, and the consequences on the US society you are unqualified to engage in discussion. Charter schools succeed with half the funding per student of public schools. The teacher's unions have instituted a non merit based salary and job security scale. That show their full focus - it is not on educating the kids but protecting those teachers with the most years on the job and highest number of credits after graduation. Education programs at the university level are among the easiest to graduate from. We want success for the kids who want to learn by the application of hard work. How is that advocating failure ?? So I'm checking out of this discussion. When your homework is complete I'd suggest starting a thread on the subject.
You haven't made a point yet, and now you resort to insults??? No, unions are not the reason for the way compensation is administered. You are advocating failure by holding up failures and calling them success. I agree that we need to upgrade the teaching profession. But, no corporation would try to attract better resumes by cutting compensation and making job descriptions worse.
Spoken like a rich person. Of course, I plan on being self employed as something that both makes money and I'm passionate about (Orchid breeding FTW), but that isn't a realistic option for most people.
liberals do want failure, especially in poor communities. Thats where they get the most votes. Liberals create poverty so they can be false champions of the poor. Do you understand. If liberal programs worked rather than crippled, there would be no need for liberals. They exist because they fail. They have been the face of evil in human history.
