Big Money, Our Favorite Things
JUNE 22, 2011
The Summer Solstice has just passed, and it feels like a time to play with rhyming words. After playing with nursery rhymes and lullabies that need more work, I crafted a loving tribute to the apparent agenda big business bigwigs have in mind for our public school system. Think Rodgers and Hammerstein, with Maestra Maria Sallee instead of Maria von Trapp, and sing it out loud:
Trained career teachers’ inflated remittance
Replaced by new people who’ll cost just a pittance
Take unions’ bargaining powers away
Tenure and contracts are all so passé
Teaching by formula, oh how we love it
True pedagogy, you know they can shove it
Teachers with expertise threaten the plan,
Find ways to shame them whenever we
