By: for the kids

for the kids — Fri, 16 Dec 2011 12:31:59 +0000

Amen! Thank you, Jane & WEE!

By: John Doe

John Doe — Fri, 16 Dec 2011 12:17:23 +0000

For all of the energy you’re focusing on trying to keep corporations out of our schools and pointing out anything you hear that is negative about Mr. Canada, the simple fact is that RPS 205, as a whole, is failing our children. Why shouldn’t we try some new ideas? Why shouldn’t teacher compensation be based on the quality and results of their instruction? Good educators have nothing to be afraid of in that system. We all know the good teachers in our kids’ schools. Instead we have a system that protects bad teachers and even gives them raises every year simply because they’ve survived the year and come back for more the next year. Why not have some charter school alternatives? Now that the district is moving back to neighborhood based schools, shouldn’t parents have the ability to move their kids to a different school if they don’t like the education their kids receive at the neighborhood school? I’m not so sure that WEE is about ethics so much as about promoting the status quo.

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