Sen. Phil Pavlov has the idea that privitizing instructional services, aka, teachers for hire, is the way to go, so I wrote him.

I guess what I want to know is who will these private companies be that will contract out the instructional people who will teach Michigan's children? How will these companies get their start-up money? Who has approached you as being interested in "owning" a company that will employ teachers for hire? Will the private companies that employ the people who will be contracted out to teach in Michigan schools be accountable in any way for the progress made by the children taught by their employees? How will the new laws that have affected teacher tenure and teacher evaluations be impacted by privitization? If a teacher is hired to teach a subject at a certain grade level through a private company and a parent wants to meet after the day of pay ends, and the parents gets a bit irate because the teacher is done for the day, who will handle that issue, the school or the company that employs the teacher? Boy, with every question I ask I think of more, because this is what I do, this is what I know. You do not have a clue, and like China you are ready to turn out a faulty product to save a buck. Shame on you and your cronies who see dollar signs at every turn and the people be damned! This idea is repulsive, and damning, and if you know that you are criminal and if you don't know that you are a moran.

Rosemary