This morning I posted about a bizarre proposal to change (demolish) the teaching profession in North Carolina, called the 60-30-10 plan.

It included features such as, all teachers re-applying for their jobs in 2015. Flipped classrooms. Larger class sizes. Teachers paid per student. No teacher allowed to teach more than 20 years. Constant churn. No profession, just a temp job monitoring work on computers.

And more:

““The NC 60/30/10 Plan, which “embraces high teacher turnover,” would place teachers on one of three tracks: Apprentice, Master or Career.

“Sixty percent of all North Carolinian teachers would make $32,000/year in the Apprentice category and be allowed to teach for up to twenty years, at which time they must retire or move on to another industry.

“Thirty percent of teachers would be eligible for the Master category if they have been teaching for three years, have completed an online training program, and can demonstrate mastery of the teaching method based on “customer survey data.” Master teachers would earn $52,000/year.

“Ten percent of teachers would become Career teachers, making $72,000 if they have an advanced degree and can innovate and lead.

“All teachers would be able to serve in North Carolina for no more than 20 years. If the plan were to be adopted, all teachers in North Carolina would be required to reapply for their jobs in 2015.”

The author of the plan then wrote to this blog to say that the reporter didn’t interview him and that his plan was evolving.

Now the reporter, Lindsay Wagner, wrote a new post saying that she tried to interview the plan’s author but he did not return her call. She apparently has now interviewed him. The 20-year deadline for teachers is gone, he says.

Wagner is the best investigative reporter in North Carolina. Lucky she reported on this pernicious proposal before the extremists in the legislature passed it into law.

Best of all is that the blog became a platform where the new compensation plan was aired to a national audience, bringing an immediate response from its author, and at least a few corrections. But every other part of the plan is still an insult to professional educators.