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Appeals Court Turns Down Teachers In Evaluation Case
August 21, 2015
A federal appeals court has turned down a request that it reconsider a decision upholding a controversial Florida law that tied teacher evaluations to student performance.
A three-judge panel of the 11th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals issued an order rejecting the request from teachers unions and individual educators. The court last month upheld the law — dubbed the “Student Success Act” — saying it did not violate constitutional rights for the state or a school district to base part of a teacher’s evaluation on tests that the teacher’s students took in other subjects or on tests taken by children not taught by that teacher. That prompted the plaintiffs in the case to file a motion for rehearing, contending that the court misconstrued an attorney’s argument and that part of the ruling was “built entirely on a false factual premise.”
A U.S. district judge also ruled against the plaintiffs in the case, which was filed against the State Board of Education and three school districts.
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3 Responses to “Appeals Court Turns Down Teachers In Evaluation Case”
Just like a “normal” job out here in “normal” life, rewards and consequences are often beyond our control. Circumstances change; a longtime customer loses a job that they were relying upon to pay us to do a job; a customer relocates; a customer has a death in the family, or substance abuse issues; a customer loses their health for other reasons, etc….the list goes on and on, other factors beyond someone’s control, which affect others. It’s a fact of life, like it, or not. We are all in this PRISON, confined by circumstances (like bars bounding us) beyond our control.
But, as one prisoner “looks beyond the bars, and sees the mud; the other (prisoner) looks beyond the bars, and sees the stars.”
Some feel that life is unfair, or “too” unfair, judging that they cannot measure up to life, in general…..and they see the mud, full of despair, a victim, hopeless in escaping with a vision above and beyond the circumstances.
Others dream big. And, I, personally, would rather follow the leader who looks at the stars above than the mud below.
Courts should have nothing to do with how teachers are evaluated. Student test scores depend upon a wide variety of factors besides the teacher: The parents, parent or guardian, if any, the home environment, the child’s peers, the safety of the child’s home and neighborhood, the health care, if any, given to the child, the number of times the child has been moved from home to home, or perhaps to an institution, and the child’s nutrition. Finally, to correlate a teacher evaluation with the performance of the child in a class not taught by the teacher is patently absurd. The courts and their members must have been paid off or, if not, have IQ’s at this point not high enough to qualify for their jobs. They are jerks.
Unless I have misunderstood something here, how does it make sense to hold someone responsible for a student’s performance when they do not teach them? I am wondering if the teacher union did not pick the most harmed teachers by this unfair practice to use as examples. The whole thing appears unfair and likely to cause dismissal of some good teachers. I can not imagine counseling any young person to go into this profession.