Any Way You Look at Him,

Nevada sup of instruction James Guthrie is a blithering, blathering idiot who is hellbent on destroying education in the state. It appears CCSD sup Dwight Jones felt insulted by Guthrie's remarks about CCSD, but what is worse is this moron, meaning Guthrie, is still pushing the same talking points against teachers:

I’m happy about that. I’m glad we pay our teachers well. I just don’t think we pay our best teachers well enough. And we pay some teachers too much. And I’d like to change that in time. But the fundamental instrument in place for doing that is the evaluation system we’re pioneering the next two years. That’s just crucial.

Of the state’s 22,000 teachers, I don’t know how many of them are great — I’m going to say 10 percent. And how many are terrible? I don’t know. I know that in the last two years, Clark County has moved to dismiss 36 teachers, 18 a year.

That’s about .001 percent of their teachers were somehow judged to be ineffective for whatever reason. Is that really all the ineffective teachers there are? Suspicious. That’s not the bottom line here. But again, I’m not beating up Clark County until we get the evaluation system into place. They don’t have a basis for dismissal.

First of all, asshole, far more teachers are forced out of CCSD, WCSD, and other districts in Nevada and around the country, and most of them aren't shitty teachers. The vast majority pushed out take resignations or are non-renewed, which are firings, but they don't go through the sham due process hearings like I went through.

"Quality" has nothing to do with whether a teacher gets sacked, except for the rare teacher who commits a criminal act.