Originally posted in a LVRJ Forum
Teachers who have worked in the district for 14 years or more are no longer eligible for pay increases based on experience.
Most of them should be weeded out. Their jobs given to younger, more motivated, less expensive employees. It's always the same story with the unions. Job security based on seniority.
A private teaching firm would always be on the lookout for hot, young talent with executive material. Those are the kinds of go-getters who would get picked (ie promoted to Principal) to operate *expansion* schools.
Showing posts with label CCEA. Show all posts
Showing posts with label CCEA. Show all posts
Friday, May 7, 2010
Protectionism For CCEA Members
Originally posted in a LVRJ Forum
preserve pay increases based on a teacher's academic credentials
Whenever I see a business which gives raises based on acquisition of academic letters I know it's an enterprise which is dominated by the GOVERNMENT. A teacher's worth should be measured by how well she teaches and how many, not by how much idiotic pedagogy she has soaked up in a lecture hall.
Kobe would not make even 10¢/hr more if he held a PhD in Hoops.
I know an in-house trainer for a Fortune 50 firm. He doesn't have a lot of formal education but he gets the job done. For that he's well-paid. Don't know whether he received a raise this year.
preserve pay increases based on a teacher's academic credentials
Whenever I see a business which gives raises based on acquisition of academic letters I know it's an enterprise which is dominated by the GOVERNMENT. A teacher's worth should be measured by how well she teaches and how many, not by how much idiotic pedagogy she has soaked up in a lecture hall.
Kobe would not make even 10¢/hr more if he held a PhD in Hoops.
I know an in-house trainer for a Fortune 50 firm. He doesn't have a lot of formal education but he gets the job done. For that he's well-paid. Don't know whether he received a raise this year.
Wednesday, April 21, 2010
Teachers Who Went to Graduate School
Originally posted in a LVRJ Forum
I am so sick of this constant whining about underpaid teachers with advanced degrees. As though a CCSD incompetent with a Masters is worth more than an incompetent without. Academic credentials only matter in fields which are dominated by the government.
At the stove a dropout who can flip 400 burgers/hr is worth twice as much as a doctor who can only flip 200.
I am so sick of this constant whining about underpaid teachers with advanced degrees. As though a CCSD incompetent with a Masters is worth more than an incompetent without. Academic credentials only matter in fields which are dominated by the government.
At the stove a dropout who can flip 400 burgers/hr is worth twice as much as a doctor who can only flip 200.
Wednesday, April 7, 2010
Administrators Make Money For Public Schools
Originally posted in a LVRJ Forum
A lot of people are going to post loud comments about cutting administrators. You folks don't understand the economics of public education.
CCSD has *thousands* of regulations it needs to comply with. You can't expect teachers to know them all. Only a small army of $100K+ bureaucrats can do the job.
Then you have all the non-teaching positions which were built into the grant applications. You can't eliminate them without violating -- penalties apply -- the terms of the grant. Besides, those "cost-plus" positions actually make money for the district. Fire them and the "profits" go too.
Then you have all the political hires whose jobs serve to curry favor with state legislators and large voting constituencies.
So you see, Administrators are valuable. *Teachers* are burden.
Teachers have expensive and inflexible employment contracts. State funding is per *student*, not per teacher. Fewer teachers reduce CCSD expenses without reducing state funding. Teachers are susceptible to making controversial statements and having illicit contact with students, which exposes CCSD to costly lawsuits and political embarrassment. And finally, many teachers are just incompetent. Get rid of them now en masse and avoid lengthy, expensive individual employment discrimination suits.
A lot of people are going to post loud comments about cutting administrators. You folks don't understand the economics of public education.
CCSD has *thousands* of regulations it needs to comply with. You can't expect teachers to know them all. Only a small army of $100K+ bureaucrats can do the job.
Then you have all the non-teaching positions which were built into the grant applications. You can't eliminate them without violating -- penalties apply -- the terms of the grant. Besides, those "cost-plus" positions actually make money for the district. Fire them and the "profits" go too.
Then you have all the political hires whose jobs serve to curry favor with state legislators and large voting constituencies.
So you see, Administrators are valuable. *Teachers* are burden.
Teachers have expensive and inflexible employment contracts. State funding is per *student*, not per teacher. Fewer teachers reduce CCSD expenses without reducing state funding. Teachers are susceptible to making controversial statements and having illicit contact with students, which exposes CCSD to costly lawsuits and political embarrassment. And finally, many teachers are just incompetent. Get rid of them now en masse and avoid lengthy, expensive individual employment discrimination suits.
Tuesday, January 5, 2010
What Gets CCSD Backers Upset? Poor *Political* Performance!
Originally posted in a LVRJ Forum
Year in/out, CCSD performance is awful. So what generates the most popular outrage?
Any member of an education special interest group -- CCEA, Administrators, 18 year old 8th graders, bond salesmen, architects, construction contractors, etc should be PROHIBITED from voting. Democracy is not supposed to equal MOB RULE.
Even if CCSD switched to year-round, 24x7 operation, performance would *still* be horrible. The only solution is to get the government OUT of education. The private sector is perfectly capable of providing enough classrooms to satisfy the demand for education services. For all parents who desire it. For all tastes and pricepoints.
Year in/out, CCSD performance is awful. So what generates the most popular outrage?
- Architectural bidding process
- Choice of high school musical
- Football fees
- School naming
- In/sufficient diversity
- Holocaust education/denial
Any member of an education special interest group -- CCEA, Administrators, 18 year old 8th graders, bond salesmen, architects, construction contractors, etc should be PROHIBITED from voting. Democracy is not supposed to equal MOB RULE.
Even if CCSD switched to year-round, 24x7 operation, performance would *still* be horrible. The only solution is to get the government OUT of education. The private sector is perfectly capable of providing enough classrooms to satisfy the demand for education services. For all parents who desire it. For all tastes and pricepoints.
Wednesday, December 16, 2009
Hey CCSD Teachers: Go Private!
Originally posted in a LVRJ Forum
Hey, "outstanding" CCSD teachers! Parents know who you are. Quit CCSD, get a cheap strip mall location in the neighborhood, open a private school, and take your students with you.
Hey, "outstanding" CCSD teachers! Parents know who you are. Quit CCSD, get a cheap strip mall location in the neighborhood, open a private school, and take your students with you.
- Flex schedule
- No CCSD bureaucrat interference
- Teach the cream of your crop
- No guard duty
- No stupid pedagogy
- No forms
- No CCEA backstabbing
- Get paid what you're worth (sliding scale in some cases)
- Work exclusively with good students
- No continuing education rules (unless you set them)
- No Master's degree
- Leave CCSD with even fewer high achievers
Friday, December 11, 2009
Ex-CCSD Employee Hired Back As Busybody
Originally posted in a LVRJ Forum
Billie Rayford, the associate superintendent who oversees empowerment schools, said her staff did not have the time to do the work that McCormick-Lee will be doing.
That is because her staff is too busy overseeing implementation of the Cat 5 Hurricane Contingency Plan filed by the Assistant Deputy Coordinator for Climate Emergencies. Freedom from busybody interference -- from the likes of McCormick-Lee -- is what the "empowerment" program was supposed to be about in the first place.
As Aldous Huxley wrote, an experiment is a failure only if it does not test the hypothesis in an objective way. We already knew how a school would operate under minimial CCSD involvement. It's called PRIVATE education. But that's not why this "experiment" was a failure. It's because CCSD couldn't give up control even for a test specifically designed for that purpose.
Don't bother voting out any of those powermonger clowns. Their replacements would be just as bad. They really should be called the "Draft" Board, in that they *force* kids (who have better things to do) to show up.
Hey CCEA: do us a favor and STRIKE!
Billie Rayford, the associate superintendent who oversees empowerment schools, said her staff did not have the time to do the work that McCormick-Lee will be doing.
That is because her staff is too busy overseeing implementation of the Cat 5 Hurricane Contingency Plan filed by the Assistant Deputy Coordinator for Climate Emergencies. Freedom from busybody interference -- from the likes of McCormick-Lee -- is what the "empowerment" program was supposed to be about in the first place.
As Aldous Huxley wrote, an experiment is a failure only if it does not test the hypothesis in an objective way. We already knew how a school would operate under minimial CCSD involvement. It's called PRIVATE education. But that's not why this "experiment" was a failure. It's because CCSD couldn't give up control even for a test specifically designed for that purpose.
Don't bother voting out any of those powermonger clowns. Their replacements would be just as bad. They really should be called the "Draft" Board, in that they *force* kids (who have better things to do) to show up.
Hey CCEA: do us a favor and STRIKE!
Thursday, December 3, 2009
What's Wrong With Public Education
Originally posted in a LVRJ Forum
To make Nevada eligible for a grant, legislators must repeal a law that bans using student test scores for purposes of evaluating teachers.
This situation represents everything that is WRONG with public education. Washington politicians dangle unconstitutional education money (pork) in our faces. Our crooked politicians scramble back into (yet another unnecessary) session to get their hands on the loot, so they can redistribute it to their friends. CCSD hires more education lawyers to file exemptions and figure out how to comply, grant writers to beg for more money, and administrators to provide "oversight". A new bureaucracy composed of statisticians, IT, etc gets created to manage all these new teacher evaluations. CCEA hires labor lawyers to challenge any evaluation criteria which might threaten the job of an incompetent teacher. And on and on and on. Is this a NIGHTMARE of central planning or what?!
Somewhere along the line a CCSD 12th grader is expected to learn how to construct a simple sentence and convert a fraction into a real.
To make Nevada eligible for a grant, legislators must repeal a law that bans using student test scores for purposes of evaluating teachers.
This situation represents everything that is WRONG with public education. Washington politicians dangle unconstitutional education money (pork) in our faces. Our crooked politicians scramble back into (yet another unnecessary) session to get their hands on the loot, so they can redistribute it to their friends. CCSD hires more education lawyers to file exemptions and figure out how to comply, grant writers to beg for more money, and administrators to provide "oversight". A new bureaucracy composed of statisticians, IT, etc gets created to manage all these new teacher evaluations. CCEA hires labor lawyers to challenge any evaluation criteria which might threaten the job of an incompetent teacher. And on and on and on. Is this a NIGHTMARE of central planning or what?!
Somewhere along the line a CCSD 12th grader is expected to learn how to construct a simple sentence and convert a fraction into a real.
Friday, October 16, 2009
Award Winning Student'sTeen's Proposal: School Is Not For Everyone!
Originally posted in a LVRJ Forum
Dominic Mariani said: School is not for everyone. If they don't want to be in school, they're going to be a distraction.
Dominic for Governor!
Article 11 §2 of the Nevada Constitution established K-12. It further states the legislature may pass such laws as will tend to secure a general attendance .. [emphasis mine]. Dominic in on to something. The legislature should actually ABOLISH compulsory attendance (truancy) laws.
Why do we *draft* kids to attend school? Article 1 §17 prohibits "involuntary servitude". Forcing kids to attend school just creates jobs for CCEA members. If kids were allowed to make their own enrollment choices, I estimate that CCSD enrollment would drop to less than 50,000. That's right. On Oct 9 RJ had an article about CCSD offering free tutoring, but only 14% of eligible students signed up.
By the way. Mariani's bill does not propose to "legalize" dropping out. It attempts to narrow the injustice of forcing kids to go to school against their will -- 90% of the time to the incompetent public school (daycare) system.
Truancy laws not only institutionalize involuntary servitude, but they impose punishment on kids without trial. That's an unconstitutional attainder (Article 1 §15).
Dominic Mariani said: School is not for everyone. If they don't want to be in school, they're going to be a distraction.
Dominic for Governor!
Article 11 §2 of the Nevada Constitution established K-12. It further states the legislature may pass such laws as will tend to secure a general attendance .. [emphasis mine]. Dominic in on to something. The legislature should actually ABOLISH compulsory attendance (truancy) laws.
Why do we *draft* kids to attend school? Article 1 §17 prohibits "involuntary servitude". Forcing kids to attend school just creates jobs for CCEA members. If kids were allowed to make their own enrollment choices, I estimate that CCSD enrollment would drop to less than 50,000. That's right. On Oct 9 RJ had an article about CCSD offering free tutoring, but only 14% of eligible students signed up.
By the way. Mariani's bill does not propose to "legalize" dropping out. It attempts to narrow the injustice of forcing kids to go to school against their will -- 90% of the time to the incompetent public school (daycare) system.
Truancy laws not only institutionalize involuntary servitude, but they impose punishment on kids without trial. That's an unconstitutional attainder (Article 1 §15).
Sunday, May 10, 2009
Too Many Teachers
Originally posted in a LVRJ Forum
I think K-16 accounts for 50% of the budget (mental health another 25%). If you're going to make cuts, these are the accounts to start. If we could abolish public education, our budget would be in huge surplus. Private schools would then fill the void to provide higher quality education at much lower average cost.
I agree that it is unfair to balance the budget on the backs of CCSD teachers. I'll make a deal with the CCEA. If we can reduce state spending to a very doable $100M per year, you guys can pick which little red schoolhouse stays open, and the teacher who gets to work there. Furthermore, you guys can be first in line for the other jobs which, constitutionally speaking, we must fill. For example, we should replace all those overpaid, dunderhead prison guards with 1st year teachers. Laid-off teachers can work as support staff in our few state mental/physical benevolent institutions. CCEA members can be commissioned as (reserve) Lieutenants in our state militia.
I think K-16 accounts for 50% of the budget (mental health another 25%). If you're going to make cuts, these are the accounts to start. If we could abolish public education, our budget would be in huge surplus. Private schools would then fill the void to provide higher quality education at much lower average cost.
I agree that it is unfair to balance the budget on the backs of CCSD teachers. I'll make a deal with the CCEA. If we can reduce state spending to a very doable $100M per year, you guys can pick which little red schoolhouse stays open, and the teacher who gets to work there. Furthermore, you guys can be first in line for the other jobs which, constitutionally speaking, we must fill. For example, we should replace all those overpaid, dunderhead prison guards with 1st year teachers. Laid-off teachers can work as support staff in our few state mental/physical benevolent institutions. CCEA members can be commissioned as (reserve) Lieutenants in our state militia.
Wednesday, May 6, 2009
Public Education: Quo Vadis?
Originally posted in a LVRJ Forum
John Jasonek, executive director of the CCEA said: We support any reasonable means [whatever it takes] to bring reasonable funding to education in Nevada
The legislature should vote out of existence every CCSD school except the constitutional minimum. That's one, by the way. This would be a very reasonable way to achieve adequate public education funding levels.
Public education is a disaster. Who can deny this? 300,000+ students are being ruined each year. Most students learn nothing. Good students receive McEducation. Yet the only solution we ever hear about is "more money" (as much as possible). This benefits the CCEA, a special interest group that donates heavily to Democrats, and large contractors, who give to the GOP. It does ZERO for the kids.
If you believe that all children deserve an education then please stop thinking that public education is the correct approach. It's just another government political-payoff spending program that hurts those it purports to help. You might as well support a government nutrition program that serves foodstuffs out of the compost heap, or a government liberation program that kills you to set you free.
John Jasonek, executive director of the CCEA said: We support any reasonable means [whatever it takes] to bring reasonable funding to education in Nevada
The legislature should vote out of existence every CCSD school except the constitutional minimum. That's one, by the way. This would be a very reasonable way to achieve adequate public education funding levels.
Public education is a disaster. Who can deny this? 300,000+ students are being ruined each year. Most students learn nothing. Good students receive McEducation. Yet the only solution we ever hear about is "more money" (as much as possible). This benefits the CCEA, a special interest group that donates heavily to Democrats, and large contractors, who give to the GOP. It does ZERO for the kids.
If you believe that all children deserve an education then please stop thinking that public education is the correct approach. It's just another government political-payoff spending program that hurts those it purports to help. You might as well support a government nutrition program that serves foodstuffs out of the compost heap, or a government liberation program that kills you to set you free.
CCEA Sues For Higher Funding
Originally posted in a LVRJ Forum
Such a lawsuit would be filed on behalf of students and their parents.
I am a parent of homeschooled students. Please take our names out of your class of plaintiffs. Your classroom funding is more than adequate. We achieve excellent results for a small FRACTION of what you guys claim is necessary. The only lawsuit with any kind of merit here would be a malpractice claim by CCSD customers against the teachers who compose the CCEA.
Such a lawsuit would be filed on behalf of students and their parents.
I am a parent of homeschooled students. Please take our names out of your class of plaintiffs. Your classroom funding is more than adequate. We achieve excellent results for a small FRACTION of what you guys claim is necessary. The only lawsuit with any kind of merit here would be a malpractice claim by CCSD customers against the teachers who compose the CCEA.
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