Submitted to Dallas Morning News for Letter to the Editor consideration:
"Let me see if I have this correct. Teachers in Dallas ISD will now be graded by
evaluations, test scores, and student surveys?
Surveys, really? If you have had
the opportunity to parent teenagers, how do you think you would be rated by
your kids as a parent? If you scored
better than 50 %, then you are probably not doing your job correctly. But we want to put the careers and pay grades
of teachers in the hands of adolescents through these surveys? Be afraid, high school teachers, be very
afraid. Maybe the surveys can be used
collectively to measure how different methods work but to base important
decisions concerning careers on these surveys is just wrong. And speaking of surveys, how would the
superintendent, Mr. Miles, an Army veteran, like to have his troops rate his
leadership of their unit? Officers, like
teachers, must sometimes make tough decisions concerning their charges. And not all of those decisions will be
applauded by the governed."
I believe that Dallas ISD is trying to do some kind of clean-out of teachers in the district. Not only are they doing this Home Rule push but they are disrupting the normal business of teaching in a very radical way.
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