Look into your crystal ball. It's right there in your newspaper. You can see some things about what our schools will be like in ten years. Better yet, save this blog entry and see how close my crystal ball is when compared with New Yrok State in the coming years.
The idea of sharing ideas with fellow teachers will have faded into the old way of doing things. A willingness to take on the harder kids in a school... gone. Teachers will be jockeying for the classes that ensure their survival, and a bit like a Hobbesian state of nature, it will be teacher against teacher.
Why? Because 40 percent of our evaluation for APPR will be based on various standardized tests. These scores will be used to pit each teacher against another, district vs. district, etc. All of this is in line with Obama's terrible metaphor driving eduation philosophy. If you think No Child Left Behind had terrible effects on schools, wait for the long term implications of Race to the Top. Did you ever wonder how many people can get to the top first? Just one. Everyone else loses.
This Darwinian approach to what has been a borderline noble professoin through the years will make collegial sharing and cooperation will be dead. More on this later...
Wednesday, June 15, 2011
who shoiuld run for the republican nomination?
Newt... Newt... Newt
He is in favor of a loyalty oath for all members of his cabinet, especially the Muslims. Tim Pawlenty looks like a weasel and acts like one too. He is afraid of Mitt Romney when he is on stage with him, but talks behind his back. Who els can impress us? Perhaps Miss Palin could give us a run down on history and demonstrate her ability to deal with tough questions like, what did you learn?
For 18 months, we will now hear talking points and watch pretenders drop. Silly questions will be asked, and not answered. Especially if Ron Paul stays in the race. He thinks people's questions are not worth asking because they are all part of a left wing conspiracy to establish a nanny state.
The saving grace is that we only have to hear from these kooks and dissemblers from one party at a time. Oh, if only Ross Perot could return.
Here's an idea- maybe Obama should run for the Republican nomination! His policies haven't been exactly from the liberal playbook anyway. He might be able to make a dent. Better yet, let's see if we can get Andrew Cuomo to run for the Republican nomination. He's destroying New York's education system as well as any Republican could. He's given in to the millionaires as weell as any anti-tax conservative could.
He is in favor of a loyalty oath for all members of his cabinet, especially the Muslims. Tim Pawlenty looks like a weasel and acts like one too. He is afraid of Mitt Romney when he is on stage with him, but talks behind his back. Who els can impress us? Perhaps Miss Palin could give us a run down on history and demonstrate her ability to deal with tough questions like, what did you learn?
For 18 months, we will now hear talking points and watch pretenders drop. Silly questions will be asked, and not answered. Especially if Ron Paul stays in the race. He thinks people's questions are not worth asking because they are all part of a left wing conspiracy to establish a nanny state.
The saving grace is that we only have to hear from these kooks and dissemblers from one party at a time. Oh, if only Ross Perot could return.
Here's an idea- maybe Obama should run for the Republican nomination! His policies haven't been exactly from the liberal playbook anyway. He might be able to make a dent. Better yet, let's see if we can get Andrew Cuomo to run for the Republican nomination. He's destroying New York's education system as well as any Republican could. He's given in to the millionaires as weell as any anti-tax conservative could.
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