1 in 4 U.S. teachers are chronically absent

No, it isn't, when the plan is to turn over a chunk of the workforce for what may be little more than warm bodies.

 

We must do something.
This is something.
Therefore we must do this.

 

Once again, demonstrating that you don't really care about improving education. You care about breaking unions and firing teachers.

Any approach based on firing people with no concern over whether or not the right people get fired is lazy and foolish.

You think the current approach demoralizes teachers? Let them see that being good your job doesn't mean keeping your job and see how demoralizing that will be for teachers. We've already seen a taste of that with flawed teacher evaluation methods that were hastily put together. Now you are seeing the same politicians who pushed those methods backing off.

You seem to enter this with the philosophy that most teachers don't give a damn about their students. More than anything else you have posted regarding education, that shows your ignorance on this subject.

Doing something isn't good enough. It has to be the right thing, or it won't help. Firing good teachers just because you think that will motivate the ones who remain is idiotic.

 

Start firing teachers and sooner or later you will get the right ones.

 

So we turn over the known warm bodies for the possible warm bodies. Yes, definitely a risky plan ...

 

Only you could take his "You must remove the bad teachers and the ones who don't consistently show up for work" and interpret it as "firing good teachers just because you think that will motivate the ones who remain."

 

YankeeFan: We need to fire teachers who don't consistently show up for work.

OOPBot: You want to indiscriminately fire teachers!

Alma: That's a terrible plan.

RickStain: It's no plan at all.

 

Quick question: What's the gender of most teachers?

 

I'm guessing you are suggesting that women have more child care responsibilities, and obviously have children, necessitating maternity leave.

So, let's compare it to other professions.

Nursing is predominately female. Does nursing face similar problems?

In 10 weeks in the hospital, we never had one of our daughter's nurses call in sick.

 

People are always so disingenuous with these kinds of debates.

If your own child's teacher was calling out sick a couple of times a week, or more than 10 times in a single school year, people would raise holy hell.

 

Should teachers be allowed to get drunk on their lunch break?

 

This is honestly your argument?

"Fords suck. I bought one Ford, and it sucked. Therefore, all Fords suck."