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jimktrains2 on Dec 4, 2017 | parent | context | favorite | on: What happens when patients find out how good their...

> To get back on topic, teachers are opposed to objective measures because if you can objectively tell if a teacher is bad,

Or that since there exists no such measurement pushing for one is dishonest and betrays other agendas.

mseebach on Dec 4, 2017 [–]

Of course. But the whole point is that we shouldn't treat a teachers' union as an authority on whether it does (or can) exist. And no, it's by no means an established fact that it can't.

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