The Audacity of Arne

This is another piece about the education secretary running around the country trying to sell people his ideas of "reforming" the educational system by relying on testing, instituting merit pay, revising teacher evaluations, and other such garbage he hasn't a clue of what he is talking about.

I made this comment below the post:

The problem with education is structural, and none of the reformers really want to address the REAL problem, and that’s the fact administrators have absolute control over teachers. Tenure, contrary to widespread belief, doesn’t really protect teachers from politically-motivated terminations; in fact, school districts use all kinds of tools at their disposal, legal and illegal, to ruin teachers, who, once fired, can never work in any school district ever again. The problem is administrator abuse of teachers and NO accountability whatsoever for their actions. School boards are merely puppets. But don’t expect Arne, Eli Broad, Bill Gates, and all the rest to address the real problems, for the filth that permeates school administration is just what they look for to implement their dubious “reforms.”

Since public school districts are political institutions, with all of the corruption and lack of accountability commonly found in taxpayer-financed enterprises, all reforms will fail because reformers look at every possible angle except the obvious one, and that's the assholes in charge of the districts and individual schools.