Last week, Sen. John Thrasher, R-Jacksonville, introduced a bill that would link teacher pay to student performance on standardized tests.  This week teachers and teacher's unions have discovered that the bill would make teachers accountable for actually teaching, and have begun trying to put the genie back in the bottle.  Here are the attempts so far at combating a perfectly sensible idea to hold teachers accountable for actually being good at doing their job:

"Isn't it bad enough that the state of Florida judges students on one day in their lives, but now, it wants to judge teachers on one day in the life of a teenager?"  - Senate Bill 6: Unfair to Teachers

"You can hate the union and you can hate teachers, but everyone will be harmed by this bill and we demand that legislators vote no on this insidious and destructive bill." -- Janet Eastman, president of the Brevard Federation of Teachers