It'll Be Good Riddance

when Michelle Rhee is finally tossed out on her behind from the D.C. schools. I only hope she doesn't find work destroying or further destroying another school district.

The D.C. election should be a wake-up call to every "reformer" in the country, but nothing is going to stop these cretins from destroying a key component of our democracy, public education.

From this good piece:

Teachers across the nation know that we are in a life and death struggle to preserve public education. We have non-educators such as Rhee, Duncan and Joel Klein in critical positions of educational leadership who lack the training, expertise and basic understanding of student growth and development, yet have enormous powers to pressure schools and educators to conform to their misguided principles of what constitutes quality education. We also have a top-down mentality and style of educational leadership modeled after the corporate sector, with little or no input from classroom teachers, that is doomed for failure.It has been rumored that Rhee's next position might be in California as part of Meg Whitman's staff, assuming Whitman is victorious in the November election for governor. This thought has sent shivers up the spine of California teachers and principals. However, Rhee is "damaged goods" and is only interested in promoting her own national reputation. Columnist Eugene Robinson wrote of Rhee in his Post Partisan blog on washingtonpost.com that "the arrogance takes one's breath away." Likewise. Bob Herbert, in a recent New York Times column, called Rhee the "cold-blooded" chancellor, especially in her firing of teachers, in which Herbert said "she seems to take great delight in doing it."