Public School Teachers and Administrators: How should we fire them?

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93. Ok lets take your points 1 by 1

Education classes in college should be as rigorous as engineering and pure science classes. Education colleges must not be places where less motivated students can go to get degreed.

* What do you actually know about Teacher training programs? What do you know about Districts who accept Teacher interns? Think they take just anyone? Wrong. School district screen applicant interns the same way they screen potential employees. Unless its the Superintendent's kid that is. There is plenty of nepotism in education.


During their last two years of college, potential teachers must train in the field that they will specialize in, with much emphasis placed on the method of teaching minds that information is 100% new to.

* Ok, so essentially they should work for free for 2 years. Get real.

For teachers in the field, school districts should offer voluntary temination cash plans, with no reprocussions for applying and not being chosen.

* Districts in Michigan can barely afford the new and improved gas, tires, buses. Cash buy outs left a long time ago.

Pay for good teachers that stay in the system and high caliber teachers entering the profession must be higher than pay for high level government adminstrative staff, cops and firefighters. Good teachers should have pay incentives that encourage they to stay in the classroom as opposed to going into administration to earn more pay.

* Unless there is a Republican administration in town who is gutting public education, slicing apart the pension system and causing Teaching staff to pay over 20% for their health care costs EVEN THOUGH administration and the State Lesiglature do not.

With high caliber, motivated teachers coming into the system and unmotivated teachers never getting into the system or being removed in a manner that allow them financial dignity, sustained improvement systemwide should happen.

* Never happen. First, we already have high caliber motivated educators. But you don't seem to know that and frankly the public doesn't know that either because a public education system cannot compete with the disinformation of the Fox News mentality. To a man, or a woman, educators want out. Why? Because the compensation does not even come close to the needs they now have in their own lives. You know, those personal lives that Teachers do have. Kids, mortgage, car payments, savings for a pension that was promised and was bargained away by elites who can never have enough.
The public via the state legislators made a bargain with educators and haven't lived up to it.