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So this is basically about cherrypicking the best teachers, and getting rid of low quality teachers with seniority.

Probably not. Ask them how they'll determine who the best teachers are? They have no metric today, at all. They'll likely simply use inverse seniority. Hire back the cheapest.

This is akin to a company firing people the day before their options vest, just because it saves a lot of money. Maybe good business practice in the short-term, bad in the long-term, as even good teachers will realize that they'll likely be fired if they climb up the salary scale.



If quality is unmeasurable, you should optimize for cost.

This will either save the taxpayers money, or it will reduce the size of layoffs (holding cost constant).


It's not that its unmeasurable, but they won't take the time to measure it. The cheapest way is to get rid of teachers altogether. Just let the students go to class and randomly assign grades. The fact that they have no real metrics will mean that perceived quality won't change -- but I think we'd both agree that something would have changed.


And this is why you should always hire the cheapest programmers then?




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