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Saturday, December 29, 2012

Ed Notes Online: Irony: Randi's Call for Teacher Voices to Be Heard Attacked by Ed Deformer

Ed Notes Online: Irony: Randi's Call for Teacher Voices to Be Heard Attacked by Ed Deformer:


Irony: Randi's Call for Teacher Voices to Be Heard Attacked by Ed Deformer

Groups like E4E which bans any dissenting view gives teachers more of a voice? And Randi arguing for teacher voice when she and her crew deny rank and file teacher voices all the time -- like at the recent Del Ass where they argued against allowing teachers to vote on any eval agree even though it is a contract item and required by UFT by-laws.

the views of our [self-declared] good-and-great teachers should matter more than those of colleagues [higher priced with seniority] who don’t make the grade. More importantly, the views of teachers cannot be the only ones [how about them billionaires] that predominate in education decision-making.

Both Randi and the author are sipping something with side effects.

Randi Weingarten’s Misguided Lament (or Why the Voices of Teachers Aren’t the Only Ones that Matter)



December 29, 2012
A conceit among education traditionalists is the idea that the “voices of teachers” are the most-important — and, in