Wednesday, July 2, 2014

Geaux Teacher!: For Louisiana Board of Education Failure Was the Only Option!

Geaux Teacher!: For Louisiana Board of Education Failure Was the Only Option!:



For Louisiana Board of Education Failure Was the Only Option!



Retired teacher Mike Deshotels offers a pretty darn good synopsis of the June 1 BESE meeting.  If you missed it or want to spend a few hours witnessing an incredibly juvenile and idiotic display, you can watch the archived video when and if LDE makes it available.  Hard to believe that some of these  BESE members would allow their behavior to be captured for history to revisit. I am speaking of all members present with the exception of Beebe, Hill and Smith.  As for Superintendent White? His actions will be prime evidence when he is called into court.

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Louisiana Educator

Posted: 02 Jul 2014 06:42 AM PDT
I and many other educators and parents attended the BESE meeting Tuesday to watch BESE members and Superintendent White attempt to deal with the combination of curve balls and spit balls thrown at them by Governor Jindal. Instead of a ball game, it turned out to be a circus that lasted 6 hours and it was not entertaining. If our public education classrooms were run this way, teachers would all be fired. Thank goodness the education of our children does not really depend on the erratic behavior of BESE, White and Jindal. For a somewhat salacious and entertaining account of the meeting read the Crazy Crawfish blog here. Also, Mercedes Schneider gives you the big picture pointing out that a legal decision in New Mexico may affect PARCC in Louisiana.

After the meeting, I spoke to a long time educator, local superintendent, and legislator (Mr Rogers Pope from Livingston Parish) who also attended the entire punishing meeting. He said that it is fortunate that no matter what BESE, White, and Jindal do, our teachers will be hard at work in a few weeks teaching their students in an effective manner and helping to prepare their students for life and careers just as they have always done. . . . . despite the higher powers over education who think they are soooooo important.

Bill Gates, Arne Duncan, BESE and John White have the grandiose belief that all the silly rules they make, and all the hoops they devise for teachers and school principals to jump through really make a difference in the education of young people. They Geaux Teacher!: For Louisiana Board of Education Failure Was the Only Option!:
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