Chicago Teachers Strike

[Ian Curtis]

Originally Posted by SuperNerd256

My teachers are the greatest people in my life.

I agree, but the most influential teachers in my life aren't teachers by trade. They didn't get paid to teach me. In fact, the mentor with the largest impact barely got out of high school. Not to say I didn't benefit immensely from the professional educators in my life, but by & large the ones who have had the sustained impacts are not teachers by trade.

3) Using test scores to evaluate teachers has all sorts of problems, so it should be only one component of an evaluation system. Overall, evaluating teachers is quite a tricky thing to do fairly.

Isn't this a difficult thing to do for most jobs? If you spend two months solving a complex problem vs. someone who used those two months to pound through a bunch of busywork, who added more value? Despite being somewhat subjective, performance evaluation is a very important tool.

Any teacher, Kindergarten to University level, would be given the esteem and respect as one today may look up to a sports hero or government figure (Likable gov't figure), and pay to reflect that.

Teachers probably get the esteem and respect of state legislators, and are better paid in all the cases I spot checked.