Matt Damon defends teachers
Watch as Matt Damon shuts down a Reason.tv reporter (and her cameraman) for claiming that tenured teachers have no incentive to work hard.
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That cameraman had no business saying anything, especially some bs statistic. I understand the reporter had a question to approach and while I disagree with her statement, I can respect her right to ask it the way she wanted (or was told or whatever the case). I really respect Damon for not giving a 'brush away' answer. Kudos. I have experienced many good, many excellent and many far superior teachers. Like he said teachers teach because they want to teach - and I understand that is not the case.... More
Thank you, Matt!
On the new teacher evaluation scale in TN., a score of 3 is considered a "rock solid" teacher. But a "rock solid" teacher can not get tenure. Only
the teachers that go beyond being a good rock solid teacher can get
tenure. So in practical terms, tenure has been eliminated in the state
of Tennesse, I predict that fewer and fewer people will enter the
teaching profession now because the teacher evaluations are so "over the
top". The vast majority of teacher I.... More
So if we take the cameraman's statistics at face value... we should take away tenure from the 90% of teachers who are good or great teachers because 10% are not good? How does that make sense?
I think Mr. Damon makes good sense. It isn't about tenure or quantifying performance. The real measure of any teacher's impact is whether they ignited a spark to learn in their students. I know the desire to learn has served me far better than any subject I studied in my school days. Most of the current fields did not exist 50+ years ago when I was in school.
Matt Damon is a whacko liberal that thinks 110 percent of the teachers are great. How does that percentage add for you other whackos?
