CORE co-chair responds to Sun-Times “fire the teacher” editorial.
Jackson Potter is co-chair of CORE, the Chicago Teacher Union caucus that just won control of the union. Here is responds to the Chicago Sun-Times “fire the teacher” editorial.
July 7, 2010
In the editorial “Teachers’ performance counts more than years,” [June 27] the Sun-Times weighs in on the controversial topic of teacher evaluations. Unfortunately, the piece is very one-sided. The paper accepts without question the district’s contention that the 200 unsatisfactory teachers deserve to be fired immediately. It is never questioned who put these people in that category, whether a struggling teacher can improve with compassion and mentoring, or what is really behind the Board of Education’s new policy.