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Should Teacher Tenure Be Abolished?

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I would be all for a tax break for parents of Students with over a 3.5 GPA. Make it like $1,000 tax credit on your state taxes. This should be enough to get a lot of students grades up. As for parents bugging teachers. This would give teachers an advantage. IE if you want your childs grade up he/she will need to do x + x + x otherwise he/she gets a D. Seems like a perfect plan to me. I will bring this up with my local rep.
 
I'm sorry but how would this give teacher's an advantage? Sure, there would be much parental involvement which God knows I need at my school. But you don't think the number of parent's calling the school or Board of Ed complaining about their kid's grade just to get the tax break would be ridiculous and cause major problems?
 
Let them call. The point is more parental involvement and that's what you'd be getting. Motives aren't good but you gotta start somewhere. This aint a utopia.
 
CONAN said:
Let them call. The point is more parental involvement and that's what you'd be getting. Motives aren't good but you gotta start somewhere. This aint a utopia.
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How would you feel if that parent called your principal or the Board of Ed about you, saying you gave his/her kid a grade below what they deserved? And they went on and on about how it's BS, and on and on about you and your biases or something else that would grab someone's ear? And if said higher ups caved and changed the grade to appease said pain in the ***?
 
KrazeeEyezKilla said:
How would you feel if that parent called your principal or the Board of Ed about you, saying you gave his/her kid a grade below what they deserved? And they went on and on about how it's BS, and on and on about you and your biases or something else that would grab someone's ear? And if said higher ups caved and changed the grade to appease said pain in the @#!*% ?
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The only way higher ups cave is if they are going to get sued. As long as you are on the ball with your grading process you are fine. As always, only bad teachers live in fear.

Your argument is extreme and based on the presence of a huge amount of corruption, fear, and the like. And if that's the case you've got bigger fish to fry than rewarding parent involvement.

You are a teacher but I'm wondering if you have an idea of how principals and districts and boards deal with parent complaints. If that's not the case then sorry but you're preaching a lot of doom and gloom and worse-case scenario here and also acting like parents complaining is something new.
 
CONAN said:
The only way higher ups cave is if they are going to get sued. As long as you are on the ball with your grading process you are fine. As always, only bad teachers live in fear.

Your argument is extreme and based on the presence of a huge amount of corruption, fear, and the like. And if that's the case you've got bigger fish to fry than rewarding parent involvement.

You are a teacher but I'm wondering if you have an idea of how principals and districts and boards deal with parent complaints. If that's not the case then sorry but you're preaching a lot of doom and gloom and worse-case scenario here and also acting like parents complaining is something new.
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LOL, in your experience.
 
CONAN said:
Ya, I guess I live in some crazy fantasy teaching world, huh?
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Pfff. Your evidence is anecdotal and therefore not germane to this thread, sir. You have done thousands of times less than 0.0000000001% of all teaching. You're working from far too limited a sample size in order to accurately comment on this topic.
 
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