Teachers are Smarter than School Boards

Subject: Teachers are Smarter than School Boards
Date: Thu, Jul 26 2001 00:00:06 -0400

More stuff copped from the Dilbert Newsletter...

Recently the teachers' contract in a school district ran out and the teachers demanded a 4% raise. Two weeks before the strike date the school board passed out an exam to all students; the average grade was 49%. The school board told the teachers that this was unacceptable and there would be no raises. But they offered that the teachers could get 1% pay increases for every 3% the average test score increased on the next test. The union came back with one demand, that the teachers create the tests. The next test average was 76%, which the school board credited to "our ability to motivate our teachers." And how.