Documentary: Waiting for Superman

[ryoder]

Teachers like the rest of us need to face facts. We are all replaceable in the workplace. If you start slipping you are out.
Its what have you done for me lately time for teachers. I don't care if you were a great teacher in 1978, if you are a poor teacher now then you need to be on an improvement plan. If you do not improve then you are let go.
This is standard practice in the real world. Teachers do not live in the real world. Yes their job is valuable and important, but so is the garbage man's job, the cop, the librarian, the computer programmer, the auto body repair man.
Its time to use market driven solutions to our problems instead of sheltering a certain few protected class of employees.

There is my rant.