What is Brownback thinking?
Lewis DiuguidKansas Gov. Sam Brownback must have a closet office in his administration labeled “The Dumbest Ideas Department.”
That’s the only way to understand how the governor could propose posting online the evaluations of Kansas teachers. Certainly parents would like to know whether their kids have the best instructors possible, but there are other ways of getting the information.
What Brownback is proposing is the equivalent of baseball players’ stats being out there for every sports fan (who’s never played the game) to pick over. However, education is not a game.
It is a serious business. Public postings of evaluations will ensure abuse of the system by those who want to get rid of teachers who insist on excellence.
The most certain way to run good teachers out of the state is to post what others think of their work.
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Chuck Close
3 weeks, 5 days agoYour rhetorical query might better be asked of you again, Lewis.
While I am unaware of the alternative methods of information dissemination that Brownie’s boys and girls considered, your “otherworldly” notion that “postings of evaluations will ensure abuse of the system by those who want to get rid of teachers who insist on excellence” is so disconnected from reality and so locked in to a preconceived persecution of the best, that you not only appear irrational. You are irrational.
On what planet is it unseemly or not rational for those paying the tab for and receiving a service to expect performance…. a reasonable bang for their buck?
In what rational society would we expect that publication of performance records would be an acceptable motivation to cut and run?
In what rational society would a good employee (teacher) pick up and run just because her “customers” and “employers” rated them?
Hey, Lewis! I guess you want Angie’s List put out of business too, huh? Those fools who expect high performance need to be kept in the dark, right?
Talk about dumb ideas……What ARE you thinking?
Kay Fox
Kansas City
3 weeks, 5 days agoFinally a governor who has two brain cells to rub together!
Brilliant, Brownback, brilliant.
Missouri should do the same thing…maybe our Kansas City School District wouldn’t have failed if we had…let’s do away with tenure while we’re at it, or at least 2 year contracts. No one else has job security, true?
Fully support Brownback.
George Hunsucker
Northland
3 weeks, 5 days agoOnce more KS is way ahead of MO. Teachers are not immune from their empoloyers(PARENTS) knowing how they are doing. Every professional, which the teachers claim to be, wants to be rated. The results are published by who is promoted. Teachers, since they are members of a labor union of course can’t be promoted since everybody is treated the same, but we parents for damm sure have a RIGHT to know who the poor performers are.
Way to go Governor Brownback, again!!