When you consider the fact so many of these up-and-coming superintendents are now trainees of the Eli Broad Academy, which fills these people's heads with all kinds of privatization nonsense, what hope is there for public education? It's going down the toilet, all by design.
Gates wants to demonize teachers, who have been reduced to be merely soldiers for the corrupt people higher on the chain, but doesn't want to do a damned thing about the real problem, which is structural.
If I had known then what I know now about public education, I would never have gone into the field, or at least never bothered with public school districts.
Susan Ohanian's comment:
Emperor Gates wants to track student performance from early childhood education through high school and college and into the workplace. Yes, let's do it. Let's see which schools produce lying cheats who destroy the social and economic fabric of communities by moving in box stores, defraud stockholders with Ponzi schemes, refuse to pay a living wage, outsource jobs to India and other foreign ports, and so on. And which schools produce social activists, whistleblowers, doctors, lawyers, and teachers willing to work in needy communities.
Ohanian forgets, though, there are lying cheats rampant in the administration of public schools, cheats in taxpayer-financed secure jobs such as principals, human resources superintendents, and school district superintendents. THESE job holders, not those who work in fake "tenured" teaching jobs which only guarantee teachers the "right" to a kangaroo hearing process while being denied true due process, are almost always immune from accountability.
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