The purpose of Ontario\u0027s public education system is to serve families, not the teachers’ union. Read more.
This means paying teachers according to the quality of their work as measured by increases in student achievement. The norm in the private sector of the economy is a relative absence of unions compared to the government sector. It is the norm because it makes sense: pay should be tied to individual worker value, not rigid pay schedules based on tenure.
According to the union, standardized tests, which many parents and educational researchers use to measure the quality of education, are not only unnecessarily expensive but actually harmful. Itthe tests negatively impact students’ health, well-being, learning and performance — effects it claims are “well-known and documented.” But well-known by whom and documented where, the union does not say.
The “well-known” harms of standardized tests, moreover, evidently are not well-known among the parents whose taxes pay the teachers and whose children the teachers are supposed to serve. Quite the contrary, alast year by Leger for the Fraser Institute, found 80 per cent of parents of school-age children in Ontario support standardized testing. Thus it should be irrelevant that the union opposes the tests. The purpose of the public education system is to serve families, not the teachers’ union.
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