One of the downsides to listening to Chicago Cubs broadcasts on WGN Radio this year (besides the Cubs, I suppose) is some of the commercials you have to listen to. I am sure, for example, we all know way more than we ever wanted to know about proton therapy at the CDH Proton Center, a ProCure Center in Warrenville.
But among the commercials that are perhaps the most tiring are those of the IEA, the Illinois Education Association. The commercial I heard today assured me that the IEA is fighting “to hold administrators and politicians accountable for their actions”. Which is great. They should be held accountable for their actions. But what about teachers? Does the IEA think that teachers should be accountable for their actions, too? Is the IEA working to make sure that teachers are accountable, along with administrators and politicians?
There are lots of really great teachers out there. But there are also some that aren’t so good. And there a small number that are really bad. What is the IEA doing about holding those teachers accountable? And don’t tell me it’s just a matter of helping these teachers get better. Because some of those teachers can’t get better – or don’t care enough to get better. What is the IEA doing to hold those teachers accountable?
Because it is not just administrators and politicians who need to be held accountable, it’s teachers, too. And if a good teacher is as important to a child’s education as I think he/she is, and as the IEA says they are, then teachers who aren’t doing a good job need to be held accountable, just like administrators and politicians.
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Update (8/26/12 10:30 pm): I apparently posted this twice, by mistake. I have deleted one of them.
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