Comments on: how to fire an incompetent teacher http://www.proessay.com/blog/2008/08/22/how-to-fire-an-incompetent-teacher/ Thoughts for term paper and research paper writing Fri, 30 Jul 2010 04:46:47 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.5.1 By: karl http://www.proessay.com/blog/2008/08/22/how-to-fire-an-incompetent-teacher/#comment-13277 karl Sat, 07 Feb 2009 22:11:24 +0000 http://www.proessay.com/blog/2008/08/22/how-to-fire-an-incompetent-teacher/#comment-13277 "If public education were subject to the competition of the free market, those bureaucratic rules would be unnecessary, because parents would hold a bad principal accountable by sending their kids to a different school the next year." I agree with some of your ideas but not this one. I teach in a setting where kids expect high grades for mediocre performance and get their parents to advocate for them if they fall short. It is the teachers with high expectations that end up targeted under such a dynamic. “If public education were subject to the competition of the free market, those bureaucratic rules would be unnecessary, because parents would hold a bad principal accountable by sending their kids to a different school the next year.”

I agree with some of your ideas but not this one. I teach in a setting where kids expect high grades for mediocre performance and get their parents to advocate for them if they fall short. It is the teachers with high expectations that end up targeted under such a dynamic.

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