tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-33431390.post6497576956264711780..comments2024-03-26T11:07:03.496-04:00Comments on Ed Notes Online: Educational Reform Warsed notes onlinehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15018047869059226777noreply@blogger.comBlogger5125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-33431390.post-9857440485161460382008-07-26T19:50:00.000-04:002008-07-26T19:50:00.000-04:00I am perpetually amazed by people, posing as advoc...I am perpetually amazed by people, posing as advocates for children, who propose putting adult interests last. What do they think the children will grow up to be?<BR/><BR/>Antelopes? Bowling balls? Bicycle seats?<BR/><BR/>Even worse is the press, which presents such unexamined nonsense with no thought whatsoever.NYC Educatorhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12188066345722781723noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-33431390.post-881632998864343642008-07-26T17:23:00.000-04:002008-07-26T17:23:00.000-04:00You might have raised a question as to why this pa...You might have raised a question as to why this particular segment was chosen. My guess is for the very reason to dub union contracts and negotiations as trivial and a waste of valuable time taken from kids. Part of the propaganda campaign against unions. The mantra runs that this should not be about adults but kids.<BR/><BR/>Sorry, but it is just as much about the adults who are expected to take care of the kids. Keep teachers happy and secure and kids will benefit - way more than if teachers are under constant attack and pressure to perform tricks they know are wrong and ultimately bad for kids.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-33431390.post-17391790736844545262008-07-26T15:03:00.000-04:002008-07-26T15:03:00.000-04:00thanks for the comment over on my site, but perhap...thanks for the comment over on my site, but perhaps you didn't see that i had noted the potential unfairness of the nightline edits in my post:<BR/><BR/>"Perhaps the excerpt was unfair, but it was hard not to agree with Rhee when she said that the issue was at the absolute bottom of her priorities."Alexander Russohttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17642533113872485023noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-33431390.post-1686085861099866392008-07-26T14:36:00.000-04:002008-07-26T14:36:00.000-04:00Add merit pay, support for high stakes testing inh...Add merit pay, support for high stakes testing inherit in merit pay, joining BloomKlein to celebrate when they get the bogus Broad prize nad pat themselves on the back for their phony stats that try to demonstrat their so-called reforms have worked. The UFT in NYC and its AFT allies in Chicago and Washington are the enablers of this phony ed reform effort when they should have been leading the opposition. <BR/><BR/>That is why I compare them to the role Vichy France played - just watch the UFT apologists come out of the woodwork for supposedly touching on this - but if you had this analogy question on the SST:<BR/>Vichy was to the Germans as the UFT is to BloomKlein, would that be the wrong answer?Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-33431390.post-31435283112543676692008-07-26T14:22:00.000-04:002008-07-26T14:22:00.000-04:00It's not nearly as simple as "Which Side Are You O...It's not nearly as simple as "Which Side Are You On" when you have characters like Ms. Weingarten, who will degrade the profession for a few extra shekels. It's very hard for me to see her as an advocate for working people since she set the UFT back 30 years for a compensation increase that failed even to meet cost of living.<BR/><BR/>In fact, it is characters like Ms. Weingarten who enable demagogues like Klein through their short-sighted, witless but momentarily expedient support of things like mayoral control, the 05 contract, and reorganization numero tres.NYC Educatorhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12188066345722781723noreply@blogger.com