We’ll get to Peter Gorman’s big CMS revamp shortly, but first Terry Stoops alerts me to just how inane the public school landscape can be.
Many public school systems, including CMS, do not have enough math teachers. One system, Guilford County, resolved to pay up to $10,000 more to math teachers. Surprise! More math teachers responded to the higher pay. Guilford now has more math teachers. The problem?
That Guilford is paying more to math teachers than to other teachers. This is not fair, according to Kelvin Spragley, associate executive director of the N.C. Association of Educators.
I do not know what subject Mr. Spragley teaches, but it must not be math — or economics. There is no shortage of English or history teachers, why pay them more? Ah, yes, fairness.
That and bowing before the false god of credentialism in education. The educrats want to gate-keep the “profession” of teaching with as many education courses and certificates and busy-work as possible. Just the nub of the admission that some disciplines are more rigorous than others, indeed any emphasis on a field of study beyond education theory, is a mortal threat to the education establishment.
The evil twin of credentialism is the steadfast refusal to accept any measure of results — or lack thereof. Here too the Guilford program is under attack for basing teacher bonuses on test scores.
Resources, credentials, challenges, gaps. But never results. The educrat creed.
