There's Hope!
Ok, so thanks to Twitter and @TeacherSabrina and @TeacherReality, I saw this...
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...which by now everyone has seen.
My problem with this wonderfully provocative piece of performance art is that Michelle Rhee and Joel Klein and Arne Duncan and Oprah and Newt will look at a thing like this and say, "See? The schools are so bad that we need to fire more teachers! Only we can turn the tide!"
When, in fact, as anyone with a brain and more than 3 minutes of teaching experience knows, the underlying problem these fabulous young people have identified is the net result of a decade of NCLB and high-stakes
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...which by now everyone has seen.
My problem with this wonderfully provocative piece of performance art is that Michelle Rhee and Joel Klein and Arne Duncan and Oprah and Newt will look at a thing like this and say, "See? The schools are so bad that we need to fire more teachers! Only we can turn the tide!"
When, in fact, as anyone with a brain and more than 3 minutes of teaching experience knows, the underlying problem these fabulous young people have identified is the net result of a decade of NCLB and high-stakes