The time-honoured tradition of each education secretary mounting the dais to recite the statutory script, "The current stock of teachers are the best trained, the most dedicated, the … (yawn, where was I)?" has, with the planned introduction of licensing teachers to practice, been exposed for the sham that it is.
The callow eagerness to use this opportunity, however, is tempered by the fact that many of the previously anointed "best trained, most dedicated, best whatever" stock of teachers are creating an impediment to progress by turning up for work in the morning.
After all, the existing stock of teachers was by and large hired by the existing stock of administrators who allegedly are incapable of considering teacher ability in firing decisions.
Roger Wilco's Internet voice technology is catching on among day-traders who want to swap stock tips, teachers holding classes on-line, even a U.S. Air Force base that uses it as an intercom.
It's especially notable near the end when Hayley Atwell's stock inspirational teacher reels off an unconvincing monologue that ends up with Javed winning a trip to New Jersey, cueing up an atrociously green-screened montage.
So far, as a penny stock trading teacher, I've had the chance to work with more than 8,000 students - many of whom have gone on to make five, six or even seven figure incomes from trading.
The main index for Calpers is a custom version of a Wilshire index covering 2,500 stocks, while the teachers' pension fund uses a variation of the Russell 3000 index that excludes tobacco stocks.
The point system helps some teachers stock their classrooms.
In America, the Edison Project, which manages state schools for profit (and plans to come to market next year), has been developing a plan to give stock options to teachers.
