Reply #132

1. Tenure is over-rated. Ask any teacher terminated for sexual misconduct.

2. TFA is an idea hothouse, and a way to drive more people into the field, but it's a field with a huge washout rate, so that problem needs to be fixed before a "hiring" solution makes any sense.

3. That's absurd, and either you're not giving their actual opinion/position, or some moron out there actually thinks we only need 1 teacher for the entire United States, and even the whole world.

4. This I agree with on principle. Students are not products, and teachers aren't assembly line workers.

5. I'm guessing age and experience mean different things to different people. I had two very old teachers on different sides of the spectrum.... one was just phoning it in, hoping for a pension payoff, not giving a damn about his students (who, of course, all "passed with excellent grades"), the other was personally involved to where she would remember every test question a student of hers got wrong, and try to teach that question to that student, personally, on her own time.