I read this earlier this week and had to agree with much of what is stated. The Value Added Model of Education (VAM) — notice the clever use of the words ‘value’ and ‘added’ — this would have made Orwell’s head jerk for it is this type of doublespeak that we find throughout the poisonous educational ‘debate’.
There is clearly little value in removing literature, music, playgrounds, recreation and other humanitarian pursuits from the curriculum for children and then force them to take test all day long under the tutleage of bordom and tyranny. In fact, it is immoral.
The “Disinterest Compounded Daily Model” (DCDM) my name for the value added model adopted by UTLA and fashioned like garments by people who have no idea of what education is, entails or strives to become an ideological one size fits all uniform that students are told they must wear to enter the low paid or no paid work force. This is an example of education being administered, not educational opportunities being offered by teachers.
The child abusers who design these bludgeoning devices in the name of education
