Comments on: April 28 roundup https://www.overlawyered.com/2009/04/april-28-roundup/ Chronicling the high cost of our legal system Wed, 29 Apr 2009 02:11:37 +0000 hourly 1 By: George https://www.overlawyered.com/2009/04/april-28-roundup/comment-page-1/#comment-47626 Wed, 29 Apr 2009 02:11:37 +0000 http://overlawyered.com/?p=10836#comment-47626 In theory I agree with the idea of firing teachers who don’t do their jobs well. In practice however, what metrics should you use to measure whether a teacher is doing a good or a bad job? Grades and test scores both have serious issues. The most likely standard will be how their principle thinks of them.

The principle’s opinion is not necessarily a bad metric: that’s essentially how employee performance at corporations is measured as well. The problem is how can you tell if the principle/boss is incompetent and is firing/not rewarding the right people? For a corporation, eventually the market will take care of issue of a corporation run by incompetent people. For school administrators, it’s not clear to me that there’s any such force that will expose the bad ones and reward the good ones.

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