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Originally posted by Spanky
How about something a little less drastic:
1) Requiring all schools to spend a least 70% of the education budget on classroom activity.
2) Make the maximum class size twenty students
3) Test every student in the system at the end of the year with a standardized test.
4) Make these standardized tests comphresnsive and sophisticated enough so that in order to teach for the test, you will have to teach the subject.
5) You don't proceed past a certain grade level unless you achieve a certain score.
6) Stats on every teacher are compiled. Teachers that do a good job of teaching students (test scores are higher at the end of the year than they were at the beginning of the year) get bonuses.
7) No tenure ever. Teachers whose students get worse are fired.
8) Principles whose schools consistently teach students get bonuses. Principles whose schools consistenlty perform poorly get fired.
9) No public funds can be used for lobbying and membership in the teacher's union is voluntary.
Doesn't seem that complicated to me.
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Add this to (5): And if you don't get that score, you immediately proceed into remedial classes for the summer, and get special tutoring during the year. We don't just throw you back into the class that failed to teach you anything last year.
At that point, I'm fine with this (in theory -- the devil is in the details, etc.)
