Jersey Jazzman has his plate full just trying to keep up with the nonsense and prevarication now tumbling from the mouths of reformers. . In this post, he corrects a self-proclaimed member of “the new majority,” who wrote in the Washington Post that young teachers are just itching to be judged by the test scores of their students.
He belongs to a Gates-funded group of young teachers who glory in the idea that teachers with less than 10 years experience are “the new majority.” Gates drops a million or more on groups like this who push the unions to endorse Gates’ ideas.
The young fellow corrected here by the Jazzman chastises the Chicago Teachers Union for striking for more pay and tenure, but that’s not why they struck. He might start by getting his facts straight. JJ offers him help.
He might read this to learn more about why 90% of his brothers and sisters in Chicago authorized a strike. That is, 90% of all the CTU members voted to strike, and they were 98% of all those who cast a ballot. Surely, some of that number were young teachers too.
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Doing Jersey proud Jazzman! I just posted an article link from the Post to Diane’s Jindal post/Labor Lawyer response. What a surprise when your post popped up in my inbox.
I tried to post your response and Diane’s to the Post’s website but have had some problems.
Two FYI’s- MoCo’s PAR is an off shoot of Cleveland’s PAR program from the early-mid 90’s and the original title of this editorial in Saturday’s hard copy Post was: Reforming Teachers and Teachers Unions.
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Front Group: “A front group is an organization that purports to represent one agenda while in reality it serves some other party or interest whose sponsorship is hidden or rarely mentioned.” (www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Front_groups)
Here in NYC, we have the deceptive and egregious Educators for Excellence (E4E), which specializes in trying to dupe naive teachers into signing on to an anti-teacher, anti-public education agenda. Not so coincidentally, they are also funded by Gates, and led by “teachers” who had a cup of coffee in the classroom and then left for more lucrative pursuits.
They held a rally in City Hall Park this past Sunday, calling for the UFT to unilaterally surrender to a deformer-sponsored evaluation plan, but a group of career teachers, including opposing factions from within the union, were successful in dousing their little orgy of self-congratulation and dissembling.
If teachers confront these liars and posers, we can win, but it requires getting in their faces and loudly exposing them. Done often enough, the naifs will wake up or drift off, and the dead-enders will slither back under their rocks.
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@thechalkface has a nice post and video on these posers.
http://atthechalkface.com/2012/12/03/e4es-eric-cartman-goes-silent-on-the-crack-team/
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