This is obviously a sad & extreme situation. However I wonder how children like this will be handled if we move to the teacher pay incentive based purely on test performances? Let's face it, if your child begins acting abnormal they will "literally" be taking money out of a teacher's paycheck, because every minute the teacher deals with your child, they are not teaching the other 31 students.
In a privatized environment that that they are pushing education to become more similar to...you can "lay off" employees that do not have self-motivation or are not great performers. The cream will rise to the top AND the low performers will be weeded out as to not take away from the rising cream. At least in a K-8 environment this type of get rid of the 20% every school year simply not realistic. So what does this newly "privatized" teacher do so he/she can help create an environment where all the cream is rising tot he top?
Since lay offs of 8 years aren't going to happen, then drastic manners where the student must immediately leave the class/school will begin happening. Quite simply, non scholastic behaviors will not be tolerated since from a time investment it will not pay off in improving my overall test scores. Twenty minutes lost on a behavior issue will be twenty minutes I could have been helping a child(ren) learn something that may show up on the test.
Also I wonder if teacher really buys into this "gotz to get paid" mentality if you start assessing students early in the year and see where the largest "upside" to my time investment will lie? That kid may have little upside or way too much baggage, I may have to count him/her as a loss and spend my time towards more students with "testing" upside or room for improvement.
No comments:
Post a Comment