Help me understand what forms of accountability in public education are tolerable to this Board's left. To review what's not on the list, so far the scoreboard has:
1) Testing. Because apparently performance is unreliable.
2) Dominion for the end user. Somehow this is bad.
3) No serious effort to push poor performing teachers into other pursuits. In fact, tenure and unions to counter that apparently unworthy pursuit.
If what we're after is a jobs program where you can't get fired, your customers can't leave, there are no standards against which you can be judged, and you can get an archaic pension plan you can't outlive, I could see the attraction. That sounds pretty good, actually, when you remember it is a part-time job with full-time benefits you can't get in the private sector any more
Can those of us still interested in some measure of performance at least get the Bobs from Office Space on a quadrennial basis at each school? Something, anything?