You Have No Idea What To Count, So Shut Up
Ira Socol, the unabashed scholar he is, dropped my first favorite quote of 2012 in his meme on December 30th:
Things I don’t want to hear in 2012: (3) “Accountability” – you have no idea what to count, so shut up.
Gospel. I almost fell on my face laughing. How did he jump in my skull and pull that thought out? After the recent news that the UFT (yes, my union) and the NYC Department of Education (yes, my employer) came to an impasse about how teachers ought to be evaluated, I could only think of the tense conversations that happened
