Teacher Strike

Teachers in red ON STRIKE shirts roamed across downtown yesterday as they start another strike. I am a bit confused. What are they striking about? Is it money? is it shorter hours? or is it something else, such as evaluating them base on their student's scores.

It is probably all of the above.

Well the lessons the teachers teach here is this: let's try to get as much as we can get and do as little as possible. Teachers should not focus on me-me-me, but should be kids-kids-kids!

Ok, first, give them the $ they deserve. Waita minute, the average is 75K! Nowadays they make good $ now. And I am sure some of them don't deserve this much. But alas, there are so little money there to make everyone happy. Look at how much $ we spend on education and how much we spend on war! Perhaps something should be adjusted.

Second, only the best can be teachers. Those lazy and can't teach ought to be doing something else. Sure! evaluate them! Why we test test test the kids and not evaluate the teachers? But perhaps not just base on students scores. If even the best teacher in the world got put into a school full of problems such as kids beat up by parents and drugs all around it is hard for them to get good scores overnight.

Education in Chicago (and in America) is not a simple problem that can be solved overnight.