The Education Wars II

I liked this comment from this blog (typos in original):

Anonymous said...
As a teacer I'm not inclined to agree with any negative comments regarding seniority.

Furthermore, imagine the ridiculous standards that teachers are measured by, would be used to hold doctors and lawyers "accountable".

It is like telling a dentist that if your patients keep on getting cavities then you are going to be held accountable and we will revoke your license.

The problem with accountability is that those who are truly in need of being held accountable are never brought to task. Consider that Bloomberg and his henchmen are never held accountable for the educational catastrophe that has been in existence for eight horrible years.

The entire gist of the ed deform is to privatize public sector funds. The loot goes into the corporate bottom lines of corporate cronies of the administration. How else would you explain the no bid contracts.

The entire city is corrupt and there is no light at the end of the tunnel except that of an oncoming train.

Merit pay is another ploy to destroy the dues harvesting union that has aided and abbetted all of the monstrous changes in the education sector.

Teaching to the test only skews the statistics in favor of more of the same.

It is the responsibility of the education system to turn out educated functional citizens. Education is not to generate statistics so Reichfuhrer Bloomberg can slap himself on the back and tell us his marvellous achievements in education.

Turning out people who cannot think or function, yet can fill in a bubble sheet is not what education is about.

What the system wants is corporate drones who will work for an ever shrinking paycheck, diminished benefits and longer hours.

All of you students who defend your wonderful teacher should know one thing. When your great teacher falls out of favor with the administrators it will be him who is either in the rubber room or an ATR.

Consider the fact that both groups are filled with excellent teachers who are not two year wonders. These are people who have devoted their lives to helping young people get an education. We are your advisors, your surrogate parents,and we also worry about you.

What the ed deformers have done is try to reinvent the wheel. Teachers have lost respect and control over their own profession.

How come anybody who ever sat in a classroom is now an expert on education. Why do those in positions of power wield such influence over something they know absolutely nothing about?

Do you know that the standards are dropping and that NYC public schools are graduating functional illiterates that need intensive remediation once they walk into college.

Mr. Polazzo spoke with authority on something that he has no understanding of.

What protections would Mr. Polazzo have if he was to have the union agreement scrapped and it was him that was being targeted?

It is admirable that students are participating in this discussion. However, there are many things that they are not aware of, in the many challenges and sacrifices that teachers have to go through in this so called profession.

By the way kids, be aware of one thing for certain. You know have unparalelled power over your teachers. Any complaint that you lodge, no matter how stupid, is taken with utmost seriousness by the Nazi's who are also called administrators. In fact they will listen to you and then start an evil quasi legal process against the teacher who has no hope of anyone reasonable ever listening to what they have to say.

There are frightning similarities to what transpired in Pol Pot's Cambodia, Hitler's Germany, Stalin's Soviet Union and Chairman Mao's China, to what is happening in this country today.

We are becoming if not already a facist state. Jesus was also a teacher and look what they did to him.

Frunabulax