Teacher Competency Quotes

…all the teachers henceforth to be employed be provided from some Model School, with a certificate of their competency, that will aid us in a work of great difficulty, to wit, … placing youths under the direction of competent teachers, and of those only.

We're not trying to be the only route into teaching. We do put enormous energy into understanding what differentiates the most successful teachers.

We are fortunate to have some of the greatest and best teachers in the world, but we want to make sure that those few that try to sneak through the system are caught in advance.

We should be firing bad teachers.

I believe our schools will actually get better if layoffs are done carefully, such that only the very worst teachers are let go.

The unions say 'last hired - first fired,', we say hire and fire based on merit. We want the best and brightest in the classroom.

There are far too many ineffective teachers and, in particular, far too many truly terrible teachers who are harming children and poisoning the system.

You wouldn't tolerate an underperforming surgeon in an operating theatre, or a underperforming midwife at your child's birth. Why is it that we tolerate underperforming teachers in the classroom?