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In reply to the discussion: Teacher’s resignation letter: ‘My profession … no longer exists’ [View all]earthside
(6,960 posts)4. Part of the Bush-Page-Spellings-Obama-Duncan plan.
There is no daylight between the education policies of George W. Bush and Barack Obama.
Corporatize public education:
Insert 'teaching' into the non-professional, low-skilled, low wage sector of the economy.
Convert public schools into so-called 'charter' schools paid for by taxes but managed by private concerns.
Elevate mangers, administrators, consultants and data analysts as solely responsible for education.
Standardize, conform, simplify and nationalize curriculum and practices.
Redirect billions of taxpayer dollars to private 'education' corporations.
Then as students fail to meet even mediocre Common Core standards and teachers subsequently fail their evaluations --- doubled down on the above formula with more teacher and union bashing and even more contracts to Microsoft, McGraw-Hill, College Board, etc.
Teacher Conti is no longer caught in the cycle because he is leaving what was once a respectable profession; those who follow him will never even know what it means to be a real teacher.
By the way, it goes unnoticed, but the corporatization of your local public library is also underway. The civic arena where "we the people" engage in dialogue and debate and make democratic decisions is being replaced by the so-called "democracy of the marketplace".
And ... sadly, our President is completely on board with this in education.
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This is not just sad, it is catastrophic for the education of our citizens.
northoftheborder
Nov 2014
#2
I personally know more teachers who have not "quit" in the last 10 years. My sister in New York
Cha
Nov 2014
#33
I'm stating a fact.. too bad you have to bring "police brutality" into my sister's tenure as
Cha
Nov 2014
#40
Pearson is a British corporation. How's that for the British revenge?
Dont call me Shirley
Nov 2014
#30
"would have done something besides make it worse" < You mean like we have with the climate? n/t
jtuck004
Nov 2014
#45
Got any more recent "I quit" letters? I thought I had seen this before.. it's from April 6, 2014
Cha
Nov 2014
#34
I felt like this the day two imbeciles w. clipboards came into the classroom.....
Smarmie Doofus
Nov 2014
#41