What Happened to our Teachers? LoL, what has happened to our teachers?” What happened is... 1. Common Core. 2. Increased standardized testing. 3. Teacher evaluations being heavily tied to those scores. 4. TFA undercutting traditional teachers and their years of training before setting foot in front of a class. 5. Unions failing their members. 6. The media (and now public perception) of teachers not working hard and drawing HUGE salaries. 7. The current economy not allowing many parents to be involved with their children’s education. 8. Corporate interests privatizing many parts of education. 9. Idiotic education ”reformers” such as Michelle Rhee, John King, and David Coleman. 10. A president who has done as much damage to public education as his predecessor, with the appointment of Arne Duncan and Race to the Top. These are ten reasons why many excellent teachers have left the profession (I quit because of these reasons) or are completely handcuffed in the way that they can now teach. If you have children and cannot afford Sidwell Friends (Obama’s kids’ school) or a Montessori (John King’s kids’), or a similar high quality private school, your child’s educational experience stands to be very inferior (and much more test based) than yours was.
Posted on: Fri, 17 Jan 2014 02:02:30 +0000
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