More About the New National Pasttime of Witch Hunting of Teachers

Because the teaching profession is mostly made up of females, they aren't reacting like they should be reacting to the neverending assault on their profession by people who have no knowledge of education but see it as another avenue to rip off taxpayers while getting rich in the process:

As I explain elsewhere, teachers' unions are the main obstacle to creating a new kind of schooling, one that is like a shopping mall . . . or a "retail outlet" as a prospectus to investors phrased the "new mindset." The new economy, it's been decided for us, requires a new kind of educational system, one controlled by corporate chieftains that trains workers to compete against one another throughout the world for low-wage jobs. As Rahm Emanuel's off-hand comments about the bottom 25% of Chicago students illustrate, the rhetoric of equal educational opportunity used to defend standardized testing to judge students and teachers is pure propaganda.

It's a scary thought that education is seen by the neoliberal "reformers" as being as a way to train future low-wage workers instead of informed citizens.