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Feel free to be judge, jury and executioner if I choose to troll Raven. That individual posts nothing of substance aside from copying and pasting quotes from articles. Opinions are opinions whether you agree with them or not. There are entirely too many points of view that do not have any substance, especially when it comes to defending the WSC. The Beacon doesn't know how to objectively print an article. Netcoh doesn't know how to intelligently defend the WTU's stance. Thornton doesn't know how to run a district in any other manner than like it's a business. He may get kudos for trimming the budget, but people tend to focus on the money versus the impact it's having on students. There are too many points to counter, so I'll focus on a few. You're being ignorant if you don't believe teachers should expect a raise. I said earlier, whether or not you think they "deserve" one or not is fine. They aren't considered merit raises, and if they were, you're depending on a lot of factors outside of the classroom to determine that. How is that fair? A student is expected to do homework to reinforce a lesson. If they don't complete that homework, there's no reinforcement. If half of the class doesn't do homework, suddenly that half is behind the other half that completed the work. That's the fault of the teacher?

Standardized tests. So there's no data to back this up, but I asked my wife how many standardized tests Warwick has had in the 30 years she's been teaching. She estimated about 12. Whether or not there have been more or less, I don't know. But they're moving on from PARCC testing to RICAS, a ripoff of MCAS, which is used in MA. Is that supposed to make students better testers? It's more time, energy, and probably money, that will be put towards changing the curriculum. I don't know the empirical evidence that correlates standardized test scores and success. I'm pretty sure the majority of those who post relevant information on here took the SATs and that's probably it. Now we're testing kids every few years. Now we're changing the actual standardized test. Now we're adapting what's being taught to a damn test. Case in point, her math curriculum doesn't teach the text in sequential order, the way the text is intended to be taught. So it's not all on the teachers. I'm sure there are some crappy teachers, just as you have crappy co-workers. The system is broken, which is the point the union has been trying to get across. But the committee and this particular media outlet won't print that objectively. No, instead all parties want to finger point and blame each other. It's pretty ridiculous.