Good teachers are underpaid and bad teachers are not only overpaid but over employed. So it’s simple right? Fire all the bad teachers! Let’s get our torches and march down to town center and demand all the bad teachers are fired! But what makes a bad teacher? Is it the student’s test scores? Is it their academic credentials? Is it lack of empathy with students?  What if a teacher does not connect with most students but has a profound and lasting impact on a few? Is that enough? Do we evaluate the teacher with 40 students and no resources the same as the calculus AP teacher? The point is who among us can evaluate good/bad teachers? Clearly not superintendents, and certainly not union leadership. But instead of having a discussion and trying to come up with compromise, and practical solutions all we get is political posturing and name calling. I see signs for supporting the school board and supporting the teacher’s union, but have we forgotten why we’re concerned in the first place? Where are the signs and discussion for supporting the children.