How many ‘nightmare’ teachers are really out there?
A music educator in New Jersey who blogs under the name ofJersey Jazzman took up an interesting issue: How many nightmare teachers are really out there?He starts out his post, which you can find here, by referring to a piece in Time by Dana Goldstein about our nation’s obsession with “bad” teachers. She writes:
… Nutting’s narrative is an extreme example of another genre, as well: the story of the despicable, or at least morally compromised, teacher. Claire Messud’s divisive novel, The Woman Upstairs, features a single, childless woman who obsessively attempts to appropriate the happy family life of one of her students. Bad Teacher, a low-IQ Hollywood comedy starring Cameron Diaz, has now been turned into a CBS television series. In the high-minded indie film Half Nelson, Ryan Gosling played a schoolteacher who is a secret drug addict. The contradiction inherent in a
Those who can….
A comment from a post on the Web site Teachers’ Letters to Bill Gates, a place where teachers write letters to the billionaire about the effects that his massive financial support for corporate-influenced school reform is having on their classroom practice:
LEE SCHILLINGER says:
Those that can Teach…..those that can’t try to pass laws to tell the teachers how to do their job.