There needs to be a million teacher march on Washington.

[Orlandodem]

I'd like to tell these idiot educrats where to shove their RTTT grants, merit pay, vouchers, high stakes tests, and all the other "reforms" that Dems and Reps are pushing. It's time to call for real reform.

The bureaucratic nightmare of the stimulus package alone is enough to send a sane person over the edge. I will get a
"classroom walk through" early next year by a overpaid, paper-pushing bureaucrat year to make sure the stimulus money is being properly spent. I, and the rest of my colleagues, was given a laundry list of things we needed to have on our classroom walls for the bureaucrat to check off. The bureaucrat then goes back to Tallahassee and rights a report on how the visit to my school went and whether the stimulus money was well spent.

Mind you, I'm not against "accountability". I'm all for high standards. But what we have going on is ridiculous.

I'd like to see peer evaluations.

I'd like to see true choice in school curricula - where a student could choose a college prep or a vocational school. I'd like to see an expansion of magnet programs with exit exams designed for different curricula. As a nation, we currently are calling for charters and choice but then we have one-size-fits-all state tests. We're told to include all students and differentiate them, but then we're told to differentiate instruction for each student. How in the name of all that's Holy do I have time for that? I'd literally have to work 24/7 if I did everything "they" want me to do.

I've had it. When is the march on Washington?