Schools Matter: My Reaction to Interview with Relay's Dean

Schools Matter: My Reaction to Interview with Relay's Dean:

My Reaction to Interview with Relay's Dean

A puffball questioner at Hechinger Report gave Relay dean, Mayme Hostetter, all the space she needed for a prime infomercial. 

This is my reaction, posted at Hechinger as the first comment:

Just as charter schools are businesses aimed to supplant most public schools and to desensitize the public to inhumane corporate environments for all public schools, Relay is a business aimed to supplant legitimate college teacher preparation programs and to replace pedagogical theory and practice with an oppressive and rigid instructional catechism based largely on a single book by a Harvard MBA, Doug Lemov.  The remainder rests on the acceptance of servile drudgery by would-be teachers who are brainwashed to believe that only they can save the children, even if dehumanizing practices are required to do so.

Both corporate charters and corporate teacher prep take for granted the educational value of a simplistic and primitive kind of psychometric bean counting that accepts standardized test scores, gained by whatever means necessary, as a proxy for learning, evidence of teaching effectiveness, and proof that these businesses should be rewarded with larger and larger chunks

Schools Matter: My Reaction to Interview with Relay's Dean: