A Letter to Arne Duncan From a Teacher in Kansas-OW!
A teacher in Kansas, David Reber, tells it like it is to Secretary of Education Arne Duncan, no holds barred.
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Mr. Duncan,
I read your Teacher Appreciation Week letter to teachers, and had at first decided not to respond. Upon further thought, I realized I do have a few things to say.
I’ll begin with a small sample of relevant adjectives just to get them out of the way: condescending, arrogant, insulting, misleading, patronizing, egotistic, supercilious, haughty, insolent, peremptory, cavalier, imperious, conceited,contemptuous, pompous, audacious, brazen, insincere, superficial, contrived, garish, hollow, pedantic, shallow, swindling, boorish, predictable, duplicitous, pitchy, obtuse, banal, scheming, hackneyed, and quotidian. Again,it’s just a small sample; but since your attention to teacher input is minimal, I wanted to put a lot