My new free-market system to save education:
The Teacher's-Become-Capitalists Plan...
....also known as The Politics-Out-Of-Education Plan
If disruptive students are the greatest problem for teachers, here's my plan, one which give society the school system it claims to desire, and benefits the best teachers.
It's a win-win!
1. Senior teachers in NYC earn upwards of $100k. Class size, about 30. So...About $3,500/per student.
2. Allow each teacher to decide how many students are in his or her class...paid $3500 for each student per 10 months.
3. Remove any student you feel prevents you from doing the job....Throw out any student, and it costs you $3500, prorated.
a. So...if you have 10 students, and one is an impediment.....you're looking at a gross, before taxes, of $31,500.....food stamp territory.
The result would be poor teachers would be poor....and probably move on to other vocations.
Competition works.
4. Opt for extra students, an extra $3500 per. ( 50 students would mean $175,000/year.)
Sure would pay to be a good teacher, huh?
5.Exams are needed to test what each system deems proper.
This is key.
Any student who does not pass a final exam, loss of $3500 to the teacher.
This is responsibility for the product.
a. The plan could be tweaked by having more tests....and prorating the amount failing students would cost the teacher.
6. Bonuses if your students earn even higher grades.
Of course, the grades for passing and bonuses would differ for each student or
locale....and this can be done with computer programs.
a. "CourseSmart is owned by Pearson, McGraw-Hill and other major publishers, which see an opportunity to cement their dominance in digital textbooks by offering administrators and faculty a constant stream of data about how students are doing."
http://www.nytimes.com/2013/04/09/t...rogress-for-teachers.html?pagewanted=all&_r=0
7. But some schools are better....so teachers bid for the appointment.....accept less per student to get into a really good school!
That's the free-market.
8. Disruptive students that no teacher wants? Throw 'em out!
Don't tell me you can't throw 'em out: change the law!
Heck....if our progressives value the collective....use value in the school system!
Public education is for the group, less for the individual student, especially one who demands a huge percentage of the teacher's attention.
Am I a problem-solver or what!!!
The Teacher's-Become-Capitalists Plan...
....also known as The Politics-Out-Of-Education Plan
If disruptive students are the greatest problem for teachers, here's my plan, one which give society the school system it claims to desire, and benefits the best teachers.
It's a win-win!
1. Senior teachers in NYC earn upwards of $100k. Class size, about 30. So...About $3,500/per student.
2. Allow each teacher to decide how many students are in his or her class...paid $3500 for each student per 10 months.
3. Remove any student you feel prevents you from doing the job....Throw out any student, and it costs you $3500, prorated.
a. So...if you have 10 students, and one is an impediment.....you're looking at a gross, before taxes, of $31,500.....food stamp territory.
The result would be poor teachers would be poor....and probably move on to other vocations.
Competition works.
4. Opt for extra students, an extra $3500 per. ( 50 students would mean $175,000/year.)
Sure would pay to be a good teacher, huh?
5.Exams are needed to test what each system deems proper.
This is key.
Any student who does not pass a final exam, loss of $3500 to the teacher.
This is responsibility for the product.
a. The plan could be tweaked by having more tests....and prorating the amount failing students would cost the teacher.
6. Bonuses if your students earn even higher grades.
Of course, the grades for passing and bonuses would differ for each student or
locale....and this can be done with computer programs.
a. "CourseSmart is owned by Pearson, McGraw-Hill and other major publishers, which see an opportunity to cement their dominance in digital textbooks by offering administrators and faculty a constant stream of data about how students are doing."
http://www.nytimes.com/2013/04/09/t...rogress-for-teachers.html?pagewanted=all&_r=0
7. But some schools are better....so teachers bid for the appointment.....accept less per student to get into a really good school!
That's the free-market.
8. Disruptive students that no teacher wants? Throw 'em out!
Don't tell me you can't throw 'em out: change the law!
Heck....if our progressives value the collective....use value in the school system!
Public education is for the group, less for the individual student, especially one who demands a huge percentage of the teacher's attention.
Am I a problem-solver or what!!!
