Spirited defense

Someone took me up on the 'spirited defense' request of the contract and I think he convinced me, again. He puts a lot of faith in the "committees" that will decide many of the practices; however, he reminds me that the state is already moving forward with these policies of evaluating teachers by student performance, and that it's better to have the city creating precedent about how this is done instead of the state.

One thing that he brought up about Mr. Bleich's comments that I posted below: his quoting of the $60 million figure may not be accurate. Someone in the negotiations did say it to the Sun, but that's the only documented place where it's been put thus far.

I'd type up more if it weren't so late. I just felt the need to get this up here in case anyone is looking at this page for different sides of the issue.

I'd still like a delay, though much of that is the ulterior motives of me not being able to vote because I'm out of town on Thursday.