How to Save Failing Schools

[@liams923]

God forbid someone gets fired for not doing their job

[@conrodius259]

It's okay at McDonalds, it should be done everywhere

[@Paola-jf2qf]

liams923 But if a teacher post something deemed inappropriate on social media the teacher will get fired. If students suffer...they are able to retire from the union job...

[@tambaykaynero8815]

@@Paola-jf2qf that's why they are promoting socialism

[@SkullKing11841]

Not the hero they wanted. The hero they deserved.

[@masterpalladin]

batman you not the hero Gotham wants, it what Gotham needs

[@parasapan]

No they didn’t deserve her.

[@ladiesgentswegothim]

Why do government jobs have unions in the first place???

[@georgelambert5294]

Faffy Waffle FDR is the biggest advocate unions had and he considered public sector unions, "unthinkable and intolerable".

[@ReneeStevens98]

Every public school needs leadership like hers.

[@AsukaLangleyS02]

I love how the union teacher doesnt care about the nations youth becoming book smart, only cares about his wealth...

[@TheRisky9]

One of the worse teachers in the public school system I went to were the tenured teachers. One of them was so bad, he didn't change any of his curriculum for 20 years and bragged how no kid in his class ever passed with more than a C. He was hated by the students and he wasn't exactly the faculty's favorite person either. My best history teacher didn't go to college to be a history teacher. He went to college as a nutrition specialist. Yet his class was amazing. He ran it like your ideal college classroom. We got a syllabus at the beginning of each class with exactly what was due and exactly what the requirements were. We took notes that were well organized. He allowed discussions on various topics of history. And he taught the truth!

[@limerickman8512]

Privatisation of schools back towards patron type run schools and let the money follow the child and let the schools compete for kids.

[@garybullwinkle6784]

Get rid of the unions!! You cannot have limited criminality in a free society!! The criminals take over!!!

[@ricksalt6860]

Ayn Rand talked about the problem with virtuous behaviour , the president of teachers union , he's willing to sacrifice the future of these children for his sanctimonious cause thus the end result being failures by the hundreds into the work force . Wow how virtuous .

[@eco-pagan9136]

I'm not anti-union but I think this lady had the right idea. I say she did great.

[@jamiee1519]

How to save failing schools? One word, John Stossel's mustache. I know you think that's really three words, but John Stossel's mustache is so powerful it outshines every other word in a sentence.

[@mkauf84]

Stosstache

[@augustuscaesar8287]

His is a flavor saver.

[@VintageGamerLtd]

OMG... showing up for a couple classes taught by good teachers and then bailing on the shitty ones was so me in high school!

[@cyberpunkhowl674]

So proud of her for fighting to good fight! You did your best and gave them a chance for change.

[@mikonda]

As an immigrant I had few amazing teachers that helped me tremendously and I’m forever grateful. Others were utterly useless. The system is broken.

[@hufinnpuff3068]

Is there a second episode to this? There seems like there is more to this.

[@wesleyhite8203]

give her a medal. we need more people like her. we need to have her cloned.

[@woohoo2491]

"We need to lift up the low performers and help them do better" ok well why haven't you

[@RADIUMGLASS]

Shit, I remember in the 90s you had teachers making 80k in the public high schools and they didn't do shit and were complaining about money.

[@poulburnell3698]

We need more administrators like this woman in the school system

[@SF-zc3mm]

When I was in school, I always wondered why teachers complained about being glorified babysitters, and now I realize it's because that's how they saw themselves. Maby if they actually taught they'd start calling themselves teachers.

[@poulburnell3698]

5:20 if a teacher isn’t teaching well enough It shouldn’t matter if firing them causes them trouble in their life. It doesn’t compare to the tragedy of a generation of students going without a proper education

[@waaazupd1948]

It all starts at home, parents that aren't willing to push their kids to do better breed kids that aren't willing to do better.

[@erinsglw]

She ended up doing more harm than good. She was experienced and given all this power. Who does that? The incompetence of D.C. is truly astounding.

[@nickb1973]

I like this Lady, Good Job 👏

[@forcesightknight]

Johny, dude....you are a inspiration and in a class all of your own. Your subject matter is more important than 95% of what the sheep herders preach. Keep up the school coverage, we need to move away from the Henry Ford system of schooling. Semper fi Mr Stossel

[@tinalouiseking]

So grateful to women like this! A lot of these teachers start getting lazy and thinking because they had tenure that they somehow deserve their position. No teacher is better than a bad one.

[@boyce1204]

This lady needs to fix the schools here in Washington State!

[@supercritical7762]

Tough love works.

[@nunyabusiness4904]

One of the best history teachers I had was from DC, he grew up there and was alive during many important moments from recent history, he was able to tell us about how his Dad had taken him and his brother to see Martin Luther King Jr.'s I Have A Dream speech. He wasn't always a teacher, he had been a carpenter for nearly 20 years before he decided he wanted to be a teacher, it was a very fun class, my particular class had only 5 students in it due to scheduling conflicts with the advanced history class which was only taught during that period, everyone in the class got an A, even the kid who averaged a C- in every other class, and it wasn't because he was just an easy teacher it was because he would keep us engaged, we would often have classes where we wouldn't take notes or read from the books, we would just talk and he was such a great speaker and he balanced humor with it so well that when it came time for tests that I could remember a story he told about the subject and it would just click. Many times his class didn't feel like a class it felt like a favorite uncle telling you a story and it made you care about what he had to say.

[@Otoskire]

As a student, Rhee is a god

[@hallienewchem9383]

Also when I went to high school home ec and woodshop had very full classrooms, but the homework was easy and the teachers let them do what they wanted. Student attendance has a lot to do with subject as well.

[@maxpower9848]

I worked as an auto mechanic for decades at the dealership and the worst mechanics on the planet all congregated at Union shops. All the good mechanics would leave and get better more productive jobs and all the slugs would stay at the union shop! When I worked at Fremont Ford the owner Deb Barnes said he only had 10 people in the shop that was making him money. And I told him I was quitting and he said now he has nine

[@majermike]

an alternate title: "Unions Cheat Kids"

[@DunkinNugget]

What an amazing woman.

[@kirkkeeling9436]

Rheeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee!

[@J.Qu1ncy]

Freedom Fox lmao I was thinking about that too

[@donm1612]

Schools should NEVER be public. The public school system has a captured audience with zero consequences for lousy work.

[@gadnukbreakerofworlds3460]

You never mess with a Korean woman when it comes to her kids and their school quality. She's like the political Tiger Mom for her community. 😂

[@masterpalladin]

she no soccer mom shes a tiger mom

[@LostOneOmega]

I'm all for helping teachers but not everybody needs help. Some people don't want to change, learn, or do better. They got by on minimal effort and that's how they like it.

[@SusanWojcickiDidntEarnHerJob]

And now these same teachers are using Kung flu as an excuse to stay home, not work and, collect federal money while vacationing in another country!

[@unspun1YT]

“There’s a cost to firing teachers” yea there’s a cost to the students if they have a shitty teacher

[@jamesford2942]

A low performing teacher can get some other job that they are more suitable for and it is only a little painful for that person for a short time. On the contrast to that the huge number of students that can be affected for life by the one teacher should be taken into account. Teaching is what they are supposed to be doing! If you are not good at it then get out of the way and let someone else who is better do the job. To use a liberal term, firing bad teachers is "for the greater good". We need great teachers that can help propel their students to greatness!

[@hbarudi]

Never heard of such thing happening to school in the state of Ohio. The schools in Columbus and Toledo Ohio are almost world class compared to what is seen in the video, soon those kids might be better homeschooled and be enabled to have friends and self study their way to the income they need once they grow up.

[@rogeralsop3479]

Excellent person.

[@petrhancil4559]

Muhahah Teacher terminator :D She is totally badass.

[@masterpalladin]

shes the "educator" teachers union "you can't fire teachers" "im the educator, terminating bad teachers is part of my programing"

[@archivaldoWillyCast]

Those bastards deserve to be fired. I praise her.

[@sssaaa9043]

in my country they found the situation to be bad, they made a surprise test for the teachers with what they were supposed to know, and they scored badly, I think the pass rate was at about 50% and this test had thing that basically every teacher os supposed to know, and everybody tought look, they gonna fire them all, it's gonna be a big purge and everything will be fixed, but they didn't fire a single one due to the unions, I think for the public it would've been better if the whole thing would have been covered up, they now administer the test on a regular basis and on a fixed date, and the test has been dumbed down a bit, so that they can show teachers are improving...

[@hubertbishop8009]

In most occupations,if you do not do your job properly you may get at least a warning! After that you "WOULD BE FIRED"! Another part of the problem is teachers have little to no authority to punish those who disrupt the classes they are in. Having said that,discipline starts at the home!!

[@perugino25]

we need more of her kind!!!!

[@jamespriest7328]

Unions..... teachers unions...... I hope with this new judge in the supreme court we can break the back of this thing that has destroyed Americas educational system.

[@joevillaflores1298]

at least she cared enough to visit and see reality not like DeVos... Teacher's union should redefine their role in education I believe in quality teachers... but no matter how good you are, the number of students will definitely affects quality.... Quality was not created overnight... It takes time... Tenure is a big word for a debate. Tenure is job security. If a security guard or a factory worker have job security, why can't teachers.. Truthfully, teachers sometimes have the worst working conditions in all professions... Overworked, Underpaid, Over-harrassed by parents and students, Overstressed If someone disagrees, please be a teacher yourself #teachersarehumanstoo

[@nexeye1]

Funny how in this video the 'quality' teachers had the most students, and don't give me that tenure shit, tenure is much more than job security. If you're a security guard or a factory worker you still get fired if you do your job poorly. Unless of course you're in a union. And I love the whole underpaid stick. They work nine months out of the year, yet in those nine months, they make nearly as much as an engineer does in nine months. You want to talk about something difficult, get an engineering degree. And the whole overworked shit? Have you ever met a salaried professional? With the advent of cell phones they are never off the clock. They can be called to deal with an issue at work in the middle of the night. Disagree? Go try it yourself.

[@pimperish666]

First step into saving failing schools is by fixing bad parents.

[@pyroman6000]

Ain't that the truth. The apple doesn't fall far from the tree...

[@rebeccaoprea9917]

Conrad Gifford so shifting the blame works better ? A child’s success is dependent upon the teacher , child , parent and school culture .

[@rebeccaoprea9917]

pyroman6000 so all the parents are bad since the students are failing but the teachers are the saints ? Who holds them accountable ?

[@nunyabusiness4904]

I had a history class that had a kid with a vert bad home life, this kid averaged a C- in every class except this history class where he got an A and it was because the teacher was so good at speaking and so passionate about the subject that he would make us care about the class. It's not always the parent's fault, sometimes it's the teachers.

[@schmidtzcargolbull]

How much did test scores improve by? Was it all worth it?

[@JAZJ]

And, the reason why teacher unions need to be rid of from public education.

[@IanMichael19]

Now we know where Stanley from The Office went after his time at Dunder Mifflin ended.

[@33Donner77]

The somebody needing to fix this is You. Teachers' Unions, Police Unions, they all have to go to change these institutions. Education is going to change drastically over the next few years. More kids will be home schooled using the internet and occasional group meetings, leading to internships, apprenticeships, and higher education for more technical fields. Ivy league colleges will continue, but many of the mid and lower range colleges with lower financial resources will soon fail. No more tenure and teachers' pensions at 100% of salary that are ruining state budgets. A new day is dawning in many areas with improved communications.

[@sethzweig2550]

5:20 "There's a cost of firing teachers. The quality of life of that person is deeply affected by the termination of that person." What about the quality of life of the students? What about the benefits for the students?

[@jamesford2942]

The students are the number one job for teachers! If you are not good at it get the heck out of the way!

[@sethzweig2550]

@@jamesford2942 exactly what I'm getting at

[@yuveex]

It's somewhat like saying firing bad doctors is bad because that person's life is deeply affected eventhough that doctor malpractices lots of time and kills their patients

[@inyoudeep1]

They want a second chance? Well they can get one by applying at another school.

[@arthurfonzarelli9828]

Problem is how do you judge how good a teacher is doing. That's the hard part

[@exactname649]

Teacher-most protected group in America...

[@stavrosgazis5824]

Drain the swamp

[@mroie]

Now all dose bad ass teacher are here in Missouri and Kansas

[@buffteethr]

Unions are a great idea that morphed into a nightmare because CHECKS and BALANCES have been taken away for the employee. You should not be forced to join a union nor should you be penalized for NOT joining one. If I could not get fired I would suck at my job too.

[@ruzzelladrian907]

(Union) no wonder. 5:11 Did he even answer the question?

[@pearl_lisha896]

Well it’s Friday...and it’s raining too -___-

[@aaroncutting]

... and the cost of NOT firing bad teachers is a poorly educated generation of Americans. Then again I suppose that that is what some people want.

[@Malignus68]

5:07 If you have teachers that need to be "lifted up" to become effective, *_you had no business hiring them in the first place!_*

[@benjiicolmarez9788]

I want this woman here in cali

[@mae2759]

Ok, devil's advocate - how do you measure "performance"? Is it based on student's grades? If so, if I were a bad teacher, I would just make my tests super easy to keep my job.

[@paulmood308]

The problem with public education is teachers unions and the NEA. Teachers should be allowed to teach. Common core sucks as did No Child Left Behind. I pulled my kids in 4th grade to homeschool. Best decision I ever made.

[@sandymoonstone855]

🍎™ 📷👌 老师好 ，你真棒

[@NC-ij9rb]

If your bad at your job, why keep you around? So you could continue doing crappy work? This is tough love baby.

[@robertkattner1997]

I want to go to MIT!

[@nucleonst]

Rhee rocks!

[@rayalbertogutierrezbalanza4206]

We need a Michelle Ree in the Autonomous Metropolitan University as rector.

[@rayalbertogutierrezbalanza4206]

Specially in Azcapotzalco campus, no matter what people could say.

[@JensHove]

Please watch "Waiting for superman".

[@Lufty25]

I was in a union once, i worked my butt off, made less because i was an apprentice, but i still grinded because i knew good pay will come one day... lay offs came, I was laid off because i had less seniority over someone who did fuck all everyday... Fuck unions, They were necessary at one point but not anymore.

[@jamesford2942]

Unions had their place in time, when workers were exploited. We have laws to take their place. It is time to look at the performance of each and every one of theses teachers.

[@justiceforall1288]

“ Bad Teachers Must Gooo!” “Bad Teachers Must Gooo!” “Bad Teachers Must Gooo!” How about that? That’s what they should’ve said. 🧐😁 This guy said, “The quality of life of these teachers are deeply affected by that termination.” What about the children being robbed of a good education? They had so much time to get their act together before Rhee got there. That teacher that was doing the right thing, that had students racing to that classroom everyday, should be paid more.

[@HolyEyeWasHere]

Since government revenues aren't performance based, public sectors unions should be outlawed. Let them work according to government labor codes.

[@LMFAO_FAN_2004]

I have no idea how she fired union members. It will cost too much money to fire, but it wont cost money to train every shitty teacher.

[@akashsalve568]

Basically incentives.

[@RobertJamesChinneryH]

You cant fire university professors in Canada with tenure

[@stephenlang7870]

Every study on failing schools shows if your school is failing you fire the administrators. Bad administrators create and champion bad educational policy that even the best teacher cannot succeed under. That being said, some teachers are bad. If we want uniformally better teachers, we are going to need to pay them more and give them much better support.

[@6Sisu9]

Good for her!! Do you're damn job and you'll have one!!!

[@robolson1576]

You should be fired if you don't do your job!

[@charltonblake9967]

Rheeeeeeeeeeeee!

[@circusboy90210]

Those people did that with failing at their job.

[@jamesgavin6171]

When liberals are protesting about something happening in the schools, you know your doing something right.

[@ljbrandt500]

Where was Oprah when the unions were protesting? Lol

[@moorek1967]

She sounds like Joe Clark.

[@justiceforall1288]

Lmao... 😂😁🤣🧐I’m a black male and I applaud her. And we need to be ashamed of ourselves, robbing these kids of a real education from a real teacher jus because these incompetent teachers want to be a paycheck for doing nothing. Black folk, we need to do better. Rhee was right. If you can’t produce results, get your @$$ out of there. They should’ve been FIRED! Talkin’ about “We Don’t Fire Teachers!” The hell you say! Get out of here with that. That’s the first thing I would’ve done wouldn’t have bat an eye!

[@dildomcfaggins8958]

The teacher's Union is there for it's members, not the kids. No wonder why public schools suck so much. Vouchers is the only way to go

[@mikecozzi1040]

😳 Maybe we the people should Vote On! Who Runs Our School Board and Who's in charge of the Curriculum? STOP! Gaslighting the Children and Poisoning their minds to start with.

[@Basu770]

where's part 2?

[@marksmith8079]

Nathan Saunders what you are doing to improve DC Teachers- absolutely nothing collecting a big fat salary.

[@MB-ke9mi]

Michelle Rhee is brave and awesome. Get rid of useless teachers and promote good ones. That Nathan character is an apologist for low hanging fruit. Michelle then has to leave because she held people accountable.

[@GenericProtagonist7]

No one talks about the people living in these areas, but sure, it's an "American" issue.

[@marsproductions1]

Unions do much to help people; but the politics of them allow corruption and underachievers.

[@davidoconnell2057]

Great job - most teachers are terrible

[@KurtisIsokpan]

Doesn't this prove that college is a waste of time, all these teachers had to get a bachelor's degree and that still wasn't enough training for them?

[@joan3891]

You upset people, kiss a boo boo. Clean house lady! We need a quality education first attitude! 👍👊

[@freeinghumanitynow]

I'm a very pro-Union conservative but I'm very skeptical of Rhee.

[@Paintball1212]

The dumbing down of America.