Michelle Rhee Can't Possibly Be This Stupid, Can She?
Oh, my sweet, sweet lord:
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You offered thousands of dollars to teachers and principals who brought up their schools’ test scores. Did you ever consider that it would encourage some to cheat?
Teachers have integrity. And if money was the motivating factor, they wouldn’t be in education.Michelle, if money isn't a motivating factor for teachers, why would you
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I would so love to hear Bill Gates try to answer this:
“Any other profession that had that kind of turnover would look at working conditions, would look at salaries and other things surrounding the teaching environment,” said Joel Westheimer, university research chair and professor at the University of Ottawa’s faculty of education. “Instead, in education, we bring up talk about testing teachers and linking their pay to the students’ performance. I mean, can you imagine Microsoft suffering a crisis because there were not enough programmers going into the profession and leaving after the first five years? Would (the company’s) response be to increase salaries, recruit better people, change working conditions so that they could work in different places, have free soda and free lunches? Or would it test them?” [emphasis mine]I take cold comfort in the knowledge that the Canadians are ruining the profession of teaching as badly as we Americans are.
Free soda for teachers?! We can't afford that!