On the Other Side of the Brain » good article http://www.jeffreygene.net reflections from a practitioner venturing into the world of research Mon, 09 May 2011 18:46:01 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.1 en hourly 1 What Gets My Goat http://www.jeffreygene.net/2009/08/what-gets-my-goat/ http://www.jeffreygene.net/2009/08/what-gets-my-goat/#comments Mon, 31 Aug 2009 03:41:17 +0000 Jeff Pierce http://www.jeffreygene.net/?p=118 When I read articles like this one, “despair” is too weak of a word to describe how I feel about the teaching “profession”. Granted, I work in a school context vastly different from NYC, but I still hold the same title as the people described in this article.

The sentence that stopped me in my tracks:

…Mohammed’s case [a tenured teacher in NYC charged by her administration as professionally incompetent] will probably have cost the city and the state (which pays the arbitrator) about four hundred thousand dollars.

Nor is it by any means certain that, as a result of that investment, New York taxpayers will have to stop paying Mohammed’s salary, eighty-five thousand dollars a year.

There’s a part of me that just wants out out out of teaching when I read about this.

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