Apple CEO lambasts teacher unions

[Mark Smith]

On 17 Feb 2007, at 14:21, Matt Johnston wrote:

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> On 17 Feb 2007, at 13:14, Jean-Christophe Helary wrote:
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>> On 17 févr. 07, at 22:08, Matt Johnston wrote:
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>>> Jean-Christophe...
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>>> ...that's exactly what Steve said.
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>> No, he put a condition: when the principal CEO will be able to  
>> fire at will, then technology will improve public schools. That is  
>> total BS.
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> That's wacked. He made two statements.
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> 1. Technology is not going to improve schooling, Good teachers will
> 2. Unionisation is protecting bad teachers at the expense of good.
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> I agree 100% with those statements.

Ditto. There is probably no other sector where it is more crucial to  
be able to weed out the bad than in education. In other words, there  
is nothing worse than a bad teacher.

I think I'd welcome any mechanism that reduced protectionism for  
lousy teachers, and I'm generally tolerant of trade unions.

// in full acknowledgement of the off-topic-ness of this thread.

mark.