Vanster, how does it feel to be a filthy liberal government hippy who wants to fight for governmental control of everything including the right to being able to piss standing up but here you are arguing that government does not know best despite your arguments to the contrary in every other topic. Do you feel as if you've been living a lie the entire time? Are you ready to embrace fngr as your lord and savior and pabst as the blood of christ?
wtf if you keep posting like this imma put a fucking gun in my mouth, jesus christ.
Oh hey, for you guys that have stayed with the thread this long, I'll share with you a stupid story:
Friend of mine teaches 3rd grade, he's a functional alcoholic, kind of fat, a very good teacher, and told the union to go get fucked, he wasn't joining. So there is the mixed bag that is Scott B. Evaluation day, before the superintendent comes in to do it, he grabs a stack of random papers, gets the classes attention and says
"Listen up. Mr. Shellinger is going to be coming in here today, and he's going to be watching how this class behaves. How you behave when he is here will determine whether we do THIS stack of worksheets for the rest of the day, or spend the rest of the day outside on our project." (mapping the playground, it's Scott's gay way to introduce geometry).
Kids are now squirming at the thought of spending the rest of the day outside instead of doing worksheets. Scott continues his bullshit:
"Now, here is what's going to happen. We're going to do social studies like normal, and I'm going to ask you about what we read yesterday. This is important: every time I ask a question, I want EVERY HAND IN THIS CLASSROOM TO GO UP. If you know the answer, you will raise your right hand. If you don't know the answer, you will raise your left hand, and I swear I will not call on you. But make no mistake, every time I ask a question, I want every hand in this room UP."
They do a few practice runs, the superintendent comes in, the kids are now obviously excited, grinning, paying attention, and of course ALL raising their hands at every single fucking question Scott asks. After school, during the debriefing, the superintendent begins the meeting with "You're a natural at this. There's no other way to say it, you have a natural way with those kids." And then proceeds to suck Scott's dick for 20 minutes, giving him a glowing evaluation that goes into his professional file, that is based on complete bullshit.
This stupid story is to illustrate a larger point: that the current method of evaluating teachers consists of looking at student test scores, and observations like this. That's it. Now Scott is actually a really good teacher. He busts his ass in there on weekends, cutting shit out, changing out his posters, class centers, updating the class bookworm, and all the other stupid shit elementary teachers do. The problem is that shitty teachers can fool the supe on evaluation day also; it's easy as fuck to do, and it's routinely done. I don't have a solution to offer, just sharing some inside info.
