Reply #34: Yes, I realize that the few teachers that can read are on DU.

[tomreedtoon]

And may I say that as offensive as my remarks may be, what the teaching "profession" does to destroy children outclasses that.

While it is a dumb idea at one school, it's the only one that got attention. Every day at every school, teachers are lording their egos and psychoses over their charges. The lucky kids laugh it off and get through life okay. The unlucky ones get ground into bloody pulp.

And about the tax money and teacher raises...I went to a school in a St. Louis suburb where the entire educational establishment tried to program the kids into telling their parents to vote for a certain tax increase, or otherwise their school would sink into the mud. All it took to torpedo that tax initiative was the school's inability to deal with rebellious kids, who ended up setting an auditorium on fire. (A fire that trapped me and my physics class, by the way.) That's why educators are afraid of "proof of performance," because no matter what standards are used, they would fail.