Hey we can use the same crutch for physician quality initiatives - poor home support is why patient A is non compliant and why his BMI is off the charts and why he never takes his meds correctly or he never gets the testing done he’s supposed to. But guess what, that patient still impacts the quality score of the doc. Why should it be any different for teachers?
We can agree to disagree, I'm fine with that. But you've not been in a classroom administering a standardized test where half of the students finish in 10 minutes and others try to sleep the entire time. You see that take place and tell me it's fair to hold their science teacher or English teacher accountable when that's the effort they give. Schools do not provide incentives for the students to try their best and there are no consequences if they don't. Not to mention in WV the completely backward logic exists of students being tested at the grade level when in high school different subjects are taken at different points in the 4 years. We'll test a 9th grader in Geometry on subject material they covered a year or more earlier in Algebra 1 and somehow that's an indicator of how well their high school teacher (who didn't teach them Algebra) did.
teachers can retire with full pension and benefits at 55 with 30 years of service. teachers who retire early can have PEIA insurance until they hit 65. when on medicare they probably offer a medicare supplement.
Anyone being judged on quality will tell you they have outliers that shouldn’t be held against them.
The outliers are becoming the students who TRY, not the ones who don't. And you do realize that you are essentially acknowledging a broken system and the only means of correcting it is with a test created by those who broke the system? Education is WAY screwed up from the top all the way down. I only ask that we are willing to fix the way in which we, as teachers, are being evaluated. Once that process is fair and balanced, then evaluate away.
Preach. What is going to happen is patients who are non compliant based off laziness will be discharged from their physicians care so their numbers will not have to be submitted. Also, watch for altering of numbers by docs/institutions to make their numbers appear better. Say you come in with a BP of 140/90. Per Medicare, your BP is high and I have not done a well enough job in managing you, thus possible payment reduction. What if the MA entering the BP makes it be 139/89, then all of a sudden I am a ******* rockstar and no negative adjustment It is bad news all around for Health Care.
No what I'm saying is that every system has outliers...and every score/benchmark has that built into it...you just don't discount it because of outliers.
Well now that Kennan is rich due to his wife's raise - he can buy us all a drink :stuck_out_tongue_winking_eye:
Well, considering poverty and academic achievement have a negative correlation, and teacher pay and academic achievement have a positive correlation, our teachers are actually beating the average. We rank 2nd in poverty, 48th in teacher pay . . . even after the raise, which will bring us in around 44th, we'll still be doing better than statistical projections for academic achievement.
I'm gonna miss it. It's been very educational. I hoped everyone learned their lesson."Good gawd these combatants gave us everything they had. It's hard not to be inspired."
opcorn:No you deal with it now!
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You need to get your facts straight. No teacher in WV gets 60% of their salary in retirement. Perhaps you should double check your facts before posting.
