Teachers salaries have also intrigued me so when I saw the title “A School Chief Takes On Tenure, Stirring a Fight” I was immediately interested. The article is a bit dense, but does a nice job of showing both sides of a tenure option proposal created by Michelle Rhee in Washington. The main focus of the story did stay on target and was definitely something worth reading.
It was a linear story, beginning with an explanation of what was being proposed and continuing from there. The first section of the story shows Michelle Rhees idea, which is not to abolish tenure completely for teachers but to create an option. The two options are explained followed up with quote from Rhee, and a compliment from Barack Obama. I felt that by incorporating Obama into the story it kept the reader interested, because they got to hear what our new president though of the proposal. Salaries were brought up in the next section and I was shocked to read that some could be increased as high as $130,000! The Teach for America program was another main point of the story, which gave a different view to what Rhee was aiming towards.
I think that the article ended well. Various quotes from teachers who have been in their field for a while, and know what they want. Their opinions are the ones that matter, as it would be their tenures that could be changed. I was left wondering what this proposal would focus on, just one part of the country or the whole nation, and what about privately funded schools, and universities?
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