Clueless Duncan

I utterly despise this administration, and the sooner it goes, the better. Duncan thinks there should be larger class sizes, as if teachers aren't already overburdened, and he thinks school districts should implement wholesale age discrimination, already rampant in public education (as I know from personal experience), in the guise of revamping the salary structure.

He and his boss are absolutely stupid, clueless fucks. I hate them both.

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The dismal economic climate may well be represent "new normal" for schools, Secretary of Education Arne Duncan said today at a forum sponsored by the American Enterprise Institute, a free market think tank.

That means schools are going to have to make hard choices, Duncan said. And he's hoping they'll use the opportunity fundamentally rethink long-held ideas, such as the need for students to have a certain amount of "seat time" in each particular class, class size, and teacher pay scales that reward educators for getting advanced degrees.

Duncan is hoping that school administrators won't cut areas that directly impact the classroom, such as trimming instructional time, and scrapping art and music classes. And he doesn't want districts laying off "talented young teachers."I utterly despise this administration, and the sooner it goes, the better. Duncan thinks there should be larger class sizes, as if teachers aren't already overburdened, and he thinks school districts should implement wholesale age discrimination, already rampant in public education (as I know from personal experience), in the guise of revamping the salary structure.

How appropriate Duncan talks at a forum sponsored by a right-wing think tank. He spews rhetoric more at home with these "free market" con men than traditional Democratic Party constituencies.