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Wednesday, July 9, 2014

HOW TO ENTICE THE BEST TEACHERS TO WORK IN HIGH-POVERTY CLASSROOMS | Teachers Fight Back

HOW TO ENTICE THE BEST TEACHERS TO WORK IN HIGH-POVERTY CLASSROOMS | Teachers Fight Back:



HOW TO ENTICE THE BEST TEACHERS TO WORK IN HIGH-POVERTY CLASSROOMS


The Obama administration is ordering states to devise strategies to get better teachers into high-poverty classrooms.  The Education Department is directing every state to devise a plan by April 2015 to get more good teachers into high-poverty schools.
I’ll save the states the effort of devising a plan by submitting my plan for every state to follow.  Here’s the plan:
1. Every teacher gets a million dollar life insurance policy paid for.
2. Every teacher gets a police escort to and from their car every day.
3. Teachers will have a minimum of one full-time aide in their classroom.
4. Each classroom will have a full-time security guard on duty. They will be responsible for dealing with the most disruptive students.
5. The school principal will agree to allow the teacher complete freedom when it comes to curriculum and methodology.
6. Each teacher will receive a $1,000 bonus for every student in their classroom who might be a gang member, come from a broken home, have a drug problem, is pregnant, and has any learning disability and or behavioral disability.
7. Student test scores will have no bearing when it comes to teacher evaluation.
8. A security guard will be available whenever a teacher isHOW TO ENTICE THE BEST TEACHERS TO WORK IN HIGH-POVERTY CLASSROOMS | Teachers Fight Back: