NYC Educator: Are Our Kids Guinea Pigs? Or Lemmings?

NYC Educator: Are Our Kids Guinea Pigs? Or Lemmings?:

Are Our Kids Guinea Pigs? Or Lemmings?

by NYC Educator

When you decide to arbitrarily take control from educators, and re-assign it to self-professed experts, you run into problems. Take, for example, these shining stars in Philadelphia. They observed a classroom, saw a reading corner, labeled it "clutter," and had it removed. Sure, that's blatant idiocy. Yet who's to say those who most influence faux-Democrat Barack Obama are not equally deluded?

Now that there's a mania for evaluation processes, no one bothers to look at what they imply. It appears