Comments on: ‘Worst’ teacher contest

By: anonymous

anonymous — Tue, 25 Mar 2008 23:00:45 +0000

what do parents pay taxes for? this school as a matter of fact has NO CONTRACT and refuse to stay and give our children the help they deserve.

By: anonymous

anonymous — Tue, 25 Mar 2008 22:59:16 +0000

i don’t believe it’s legal for me to name this high school, but what i will inform you of right now is these few things that have occurred within the 2007-08 year.
School psychologist, returns with hickey on neck.
Global teacher, should wear clothes that compliment the body. Teenage girls having sexual intercourse may be lead from these types of things..
Living Environment teacher, gets kid nearly blind because she did not require goggles in an acid lab experiment.
Many Teachers use vile language, no matter how mad you get..you should not.
School walkway collapses, luckily no one was injured..even killed.
cockroaches and mice crawl throughout the basement and ceilings, they might be in every school but they should not be witnessed and have nothing done about it..
teachers do not give respect, thats why most of them do not get any.

what would you think? I’m not quite sure myself..

By: Mom Cares

Mom Cares — Mon, 17 Mar 2008 23:09:05 +0000

I would love to see the price go up to remove bad teachers. After all, the price to a child as a result of horrible teaching can be lifelong. It should be handled like a malpractice suit. Suspension while under investigation; however, administrators do little more than issue rhetoric like “what’s best for kids”…moving a teacher around in the district does NOT solve the problem, it just exposes more kids to it! I do not believe it is as hard to fire a teacher for cause as some say.

By: laura vasquez

laura vasquez — Thu, 13 Mar 2008 19:34:14 +0000

Everyone knows who the bad teachers at a school are….it’s the administrators that don’t know how or afraid to do their jobs. They are the ones responsible.

A union member

By: Tracy W

Tracy W — Thu, 13 Mar 2008 08:53:01 +0000

Why is that a problem? Would you prefer that a teacher be fireable for having a bad week?

Because a year of bad teaching will have very bad effects on the teachers’ students.

By: NDC

NDC — Wed, 12 Mar 2008 22:27:36 +0000

I wonder if anyone will get sued for slander or libel after they try to nominate someone.

By: Bart

Bart — Wed, 12 Mar 2008 18:10:16 +0000

Sorry, here is the original pdf for the above link:
http://www.irs.princeton.edu/pubs/pdfs/503.pdf

By: Bart

Bart — Wed, 12 Mar 2008 18:06:51 +0000

I’ve come to draw a major distinction between public employee unions and those in the private sector, where at least economic reality tends to check excessive power. Private sector unions have been seeing a lot of economic reality in recent years; I’m not sure what it will take to counter the excesses in the public sector. I thought the following was an eye-opener:

http://209.85.165.104/search?q=cache:p7pfxF6UO6EJ:www.irs.princeton.edu/pubs/pdfs/503.pdf+%22public+employee%22+%22private+sector%22+union+membership&hl=en&ct=clnk&cd=1&gl=us

“While the union membership rate in the private sector fell from 25 percent in 1975 to 8.2 percentin 2004, the rate in the public sector increased from the same level in 1975 to over35 percent in 2004.”

By: dolecia

dolecia — Wed, 12 Mar 2008 15:19:45 +0000

i think this is the stupidest thing ever published…not cool

By: Keith

Keith — Wed, 12 Mar 2008 15:08:57 +0000

Why is it a problem? Because anyone who has a bad week that lasts for more than a couple of months probably isn’t having a bad week, they’re just bad. It shouldn’t take an entire year to figure out that someone isn’t doing the job they’re being paid to do.