Nahhhh..... the whole system needs to start from scratch, with a voucher based system which makes shitty schools and shitty teachers pay the price for ruining the system. That way students and parents can choose schools based on how well they are doing instead of being forced to go to schools, where teachers are doing a horiffic job.
I dont even care if teachers keep their current ridiculously high salaries for working 8 months a year 6 hours a day, but tenure has to be eliminated, and they got to start paying in for their benefits. There is another stat from the documentary which says that only 1 in 3000 tenured teachers gets fired, that is absolutely absurd, if you cant even find 1 person out of every 100 who isnt doing their job properly when your school is graduating less then half its students, then it means you are just ignoring people who obviously arent doing their job.
There was even an example in this documentary where a good teacher wanted to start an after school gardening program on her own dime, and the teachers union wouldnt let her because it might catch on and create extra work for the other teachers.
I dont even care if teachers keep their current ridiculously high salaries for working 8 months a year 6 hours a day, but tenure has to be eliminated, and they got to start paying in for their benefits. There is another stat from the documentary which says that only 1 in 3000 tenured teachers gets fired, that is absolutely absurd, if you cant even find 1 person out of every 100 who isnt doing their job properly when your school is graduating less then half its students, then it means you are just ignoring people who obviously arent doing their job.
There was even an example in this documentary where a good teacher wanted to start an after school gardening program on her own dime, and the teachers union wouldnt let her because it might catch on and create extra work for the other teachers.