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Saturday, September 3, 2011

School Tech Connect: Everyone Has A Price

School Tech Connect: Everyone Has A Price:

Everyone Has A Price

And in some Chicago Public Schools, it's pretty low.

So many questions. Are all of the schools where the teachers have no self esteem going to get the $150k? Or is it just a limited bribe pot for union busting? Where's it coming from? If it doesn't materialize, or if the teachers can't spend it as freely as they were told, how will they grieve that? When they see that their lump-sum payment is basically invisible on their paychecks, will they be happy with that?

This whole business of tacking 90 minutes onto the day without even having a plan for what they're going to do with the 90 minutes--- it's absurd.



And did that principal seriously suggest that spending $150k on iPads would be