Attention All Teachers: Your Union Leaders Are Betraying You
Last year Paul Toner, the ostensible leader of the MA Teachers Association, surrendered his membership by capitulating without a whimper to the first step in the corporate blueprint to replace tenured and experienced teachers with a new generation of untrained neophytes who will cycle through the system after a two to three year stint. That first step in that process was to establish a teacher evaluation scheme based on student test scores, and to link job security pay to those test scores. Toner accomplished this feat without a vote by the rank and file--not even an opinion survey.
This kind of open contempt for the teachers he was elected to represent in 2010 signified a transparent betrayal of teachers and children for the self-aggrandizing goal of cozying up to the corporate foundations and education terrorist organizations like Stand for Children (see Jonah Edelman spill the beans on the real goals of Stand on Children).
Now we find that President Toner has surrendered Massachusetts teachers once more in Step 2 of the corporate
This kind of open contempt for the teachers he was elected to represent in 2010 signified a transparent betrayal of teachers and children for the self-aggrandizing goal of cozying up to the corporate foundations and education terrorist organizations like Stand for Children (see Jonah Edelman spill the beans on the real goals of Stand on Children).
Now we find that President Toner has surrendered Massachusetts teachers once more in Step 2 of the corporate