all right so I just wanted to know what
your take was on you said with education
to fire the Bad Teachers what's your
definition of Bad Teachers great
question so how many people here think
you've had at least one teacher that
deserves to be fired everyone raises
always
um so the question is how do you find
them right so I got this question asked
a lot
here's the interesting thing so when
President Obama was running for
president in 2008 one of his big things
he said it over 40 times was that we
need to have a system that rewards good
teachers and fires bad ones but the
question is always how do you find the
bad ones so is it test scores probably
not is it you know peer evaluation the
best metric is you have teachers grade
teachers and you have parental input
here's the thing you know the really
really bad teachers those have got to go
I had teachers earning 150 000 a year
barely showing up for class teaching Jim
doing nothing being completely lazy
they're a drain on the school budget
they're a drain on the local community
and they should be fired instantaneously
the problem is under current teacher
tenure laws in certain States in Most
states they are protected by by
contracts designed by teacher unions
that make it nearly impossible to fire
Bad Teachers if they're not productive
they don't put time in so I I would
support reform and a system that allows
really good teachers here's the thing
some teachers this might be a surprise
that some of my liberal counterparts so
I had public teach Public School
teachers that changed my life that did
unbelievable amount of work they got in
at 6 6 a.m every day they worked their
tail off then I had teachers that would
take half the year off they just didn't
care they were they were you know bratty
they thought it was horrible and yet
those the one that didn't put as much
effort was earning more than the person
that was just there that is not the way
that we should reward I think I believe
teachers in this country teachers are
modern day heroes I'm very very
pro-teacher very anti-teacher Union so I
think that's the big difference what
about professors professors yeah
I believe this similar thing I think
that we currently have a system that
rewards professors that want to write
their book and sell it back to their
class
um
I think I think that's well it's a fair
point
um it's it's also rewards professors
that do most studying
um and not actually engaging with their
current class here's the problem is that
most college freshmen are taught by Tas
teachers assistants so they're they're
getting something they're paying for
something they're not even getting
um it's it I think measuring value in a
professor should be different than that
of a teacher but here's the big
difference is that that public school
teachers in K-12 education
um have to be held to a different
standard than professors it just has to
be it's a different there's more K-12
teachers than there are professors a lot
more almost 10 to one ratio
okay but with the whole point on the Tas
usually doctoral students yes that are
turning into professors so
why is that a PR how are how are the Tas
supposed to because when you start to
have class sizes that are 500 people and
plus when you have Tas that are not yet
Masters on the subject that you're
paying a pretty penny on that deserves
question because you are going to
college to learn from subject matter
experts in an environment where you can
dive deep into that particular topic so
on and so forth so if I'm paying or I'm
being forced to pay eight hundred
dollars for this Sociology class or you
know human studies class or and I'm
getting taught by a TA with 800 people
in a lecture hall this big that that
could that there's something I think
wrong with that I think because you're
you're paying a pretty penny for
something that is then you know very I
would say inadequate
