Comments on: Want better schools? Dump the unions. http://www.texasstartupblog.com/2007/02/18/want-better-schools-dump-the-unions/ Spurring innovation and entrepreneurship. Wed, 17 Mar 2010 02:09:25 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.7 hourly 1 By: Cheyne Rood http://www.texasstartupblog.com/2007/02/18/want-better-schools-dump-the-unions/#comment-67742 Cheyne Rood Mon, 19 Feb 2007 19:30:09 +0000 http://www.texasstartupblog.com/2007/02/18/want-better-schools-dump-the-unions/#comment-67742 Right on Alex - the unions are a HUGE problem. You mentioned how bad teachers cannot be properly dealt with, but equally egregious is that the good teachers can't be properly recognized and compensated. To acknowledge the comment above -- I don't think it was suggested that, by dissolving unions, teachers would be paid less. Rather, seniority and degree-level would no longer be the sole basis of pay scale. Great teachers should be rewarded with great compensation. Right on Alex - the unions are a HUGE problem. You mentioned how bad teachers cannot be properly dealt with, but equally egregious is that the good teachers can’t be properly recognized and compensated.

To acknowledge the comment above — I don’t think it was suggested that, by dissolving unions, teachers would be paid less. Rather, seniority and degree-level would no longer be the sole basis of pay scale. Great teachers should be rewarded with great compensation.

]]> By: Alexander Muse http://www.texasstartupblog.com/2007/02/18/want-better-schools-dump-the-unions/#comment-67554 Alexander Muse Mon, 19 Feb 2007 01:47:47 +0000 http://www.texasstartupblog.com/2007/02/18/want-better-schools-dump-the-unions/#comment-67554 Who CAN afford to live in the Bay Area? Who CAN afford to live in the Bay Area?

]]> By: JM http://www.texasstartupblog.com/2007/02/18/want-better-schools-dump-the-unions/#comment-67527 JM Mon, 19 Feb 2007 00:37:47 +0000 http://www.texasstartupblog.com/2007/02/18/want-better-schools-dump-the-unions/#comment-67527 Everybody has an idea on how to reform education but nobody wants to be a teacher being paid very little to educate kids some of whom don't give a damn and are disrespectful. I wonder whether Steve knows that his own kids' teachers probably have to drive 2 or 3 hours each way every day because they just cannot afford to live in the Bay Area. What a joke. Everybody has an idea on how to reform education but nobody wants to be a teacher being paid very little to educate kids some of whom don’t give a damn and are disrespectful. I wonder whether Steve knows that his own kids’ teachers probably have to drive 2 or 3 hours each way every day because they just cannot afford to live in the Bay Area. What a joke.

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