Wednesday, November 21, 2012

Schools Matter: Rhee Announces Teachers Should Suffer During Holidays, Too

Schools Matter: Rhee Announces Teachers Should Suffer During Holidays, Too:


Rhee Announces Teachers Should Suffer During Holidays, Too

Michelle Rhee
The former D.C. chancellor, leader of Michelle First,  believes that if we’re going to use tenure to retain teachers, we must do it 'based on measures that matter' to Eli Broad and Bill Gates Read More >>

When you get on the Waiting for Superman email list like I did, you get an uninterrupted supply of propaganda, with headlines, stories, and pics like the one above (slightly altered) of Eli Broad's poisonous puppet, Michelle Rhee, in one her most Hitlerian poses, complete with backlighting spots.

The ad agencies that handle the corporate reform schoolers' accounts have made an art form of preying on unsuspecting newbie teachers trained to be parrots of the 19th Century teaching gospel of Doug Lemov or the behavioral sterilization therapies of KIPP's David Levin.  These new entrepreneurial pedagogues are the same ones who are being chewed up and spit out by the system that Mad Michelle created in DC before she left under the cloud of a cheating scandal that won't go away.

Here a few clips from an AP story by Ben Nuckols in September on the wreckage that Rhee left behind in DC