Obama Promises to Be a Disaster

on education as long as he supports the Business Roundtable's agenda of "merit pay" and other such nonsense. And his support of this nonsense has filtered down to state legislators, some of whom want to force a business model on something that isn't a business to begin with.

Dan Grimm, a former state lawmaker who headed a task force that recommended merit pay to the Legislature, said that, if nothing else, we should pay principals and superintendents bonuses for hiring and firing the right teachers.

"Right now, they have no financial incentive to be diligent in the management of their staffs," he said. "There are tremendous disincentives for taking action against a poor-performing teacher. This is to change that dynamic.

"I think we know that if we reward good behavior, we'll get more of it."

Yeah, I can just see this. The school district from which I was "dismissed" is full of asskissers and principals and other administrators who violate federal and civil rights law. They'll throw out the "troublemakers" like me who refused to cheat on testing students but keep the wrongdoer principals indefinitely because they "get results."

This is last bunch of shit public education needs. School districts already suffer from nepotism and favoritism, and "merit pay" would make it much, much worse.