Teacher Ken Shows Creativity

April 14, 2013 //

Please check out Teacher Ken’s post on the Daily Kos.

Scroll down through the comments and you will see some creative reworking of the covers of Time and Newsweek, as well as the “Waiting for Superman” poster, now renamed “Waiting for Eraserhead.”

Categories Humor, Rhee, Michelle

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Linda says:

April 14, 2013 at 12:51 am

One more version here and with help:

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- Kay says:
  
  April 14, 2013 at 8:34 am
  
  That is so clever and must go viral. I am in suburbs outside Atlanta. Just last weekend my teacher friend’s brilliant husband said (in response to Atlanta indictments) that he was going to make tshirts that said eRace To The Top. Great minds do think alike. Transposing it onto the old broom-in-hand Time cover is amazing. It is its own indictment of Rhee, Duncan, Obama, Bush, and all the other public educ deformers. Underneath it all is their disrespect and disdain for public school kids.
  
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oemb1905 says:

April 14, 2013 at 12:54 am

Your input with regards to how the testing craze has encouraged cheating is most valuable. I have been reading your latest work and wonder where you placed New Mexico prior to the Common Core initiative. From your research, did we dumb down measures at the state level, did we lower standards, how were we as a whole from 2000-2008, for example, in your opinion …

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- concerned educator says:
  
  April 14, 2013 at 10:38 am
  
  NY Raced to the Middle and dismantled a top level education system.
  
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  - John B says:
    
    April 14, 2013 at 12:43 pm
    
    Massachusetts as well…
    
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George Buzzetti says:

April 14, 2013 at 5:13 am

I totally applaud your word smithing creativity.

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avoteforthefuture says:

April 14, 2013 at 8:09 am

Arguments that are peppered with all the unadulterated hate for Michelle Rhee (or anyone else who doesn’t agree with you) make your arguments weaker.

Stop calling names. Stop the derision. Stop the attacks. Debate without them or lose the debate. As you are doing.

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- Linda says:
  
  April 14, 2013 at 8:11 am
  
  1. It’s too late
  
  2. Are you upset when Rhee demeans and insults an entire profession, one she never mastered herself?
  
  3. NO!
  
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  - KrazyTA says:
    
    April 14, 2013 at 11:40 am
    
    Linda: yes!
    
    Question: Is it just me, or does the poster look like he is exaggerating for comic effect the response of an uncritical Michelle Rhee fan? I literally laughed when I read his posting.
    
    🙂
    
    But in the unlikely—if sad—event that he is serious, I repeat Diane’s quite sensible advice for people who feel that this blog is extremist: “[fill in the name,] a word to the wise. Don’t follow extremist blogs” [brackets mine; posting of 4-13-14, in the comment section of “One of the Dumbest NYTimes Opinion Pieces Ever”].
    
    Another one of Diane’s sensible “Rules of the Road.”
    
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- DeeDee says:
  
  April 14, 2013 at 10:00 am
  
  Not here. She caused a lot of suffering out here. No one feels pity for Rhee.
  
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- Duane Swacker says:
  
  April 14, 2013 at 10:47 am
  
  A rheeally rheephormista rheequest!
  
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- Betsy Marshall says:
  
  April 14, 2013 at 11:18 am
  
  We have research, experience, heart and ethics on our side. We are not the “ed-reform” hocus-pocus-focus side of the debate. We are gaining strength day-by-day as the truth is finally exposed.
  
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- oemb1905 says:
  
  April 14, 2013 at 11:58 am
  
  Well, the essential point is that she exhibited impropriety by knowingly looking aside in the face of widespread cheating. I think that is the presumed central argument here. It is based on a widespread reaction to the testing craze, which the author of this blog has duly documented and noted in her latest publication. I have not had the opportunity to review the evidence in her favor, but it sounds like you have from the tone of your post. Can you please cite your reasons for upholding her innocence?
  
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concerned educator says:

April 14, 2013 at 10:36 am

Okay all you educators. You’re being way too creative in violation of CCSS, USDOE and probably your governor. Knock it off or you may inspire your students to take critical looks at current events and the status quo. And we know how that will end.

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- Linda says:
  
  April 14, 2013 at 10:43 am
  
  A R E V O L U T I O N…..after all Coleman wants critical thinking, close reading and deep analysis.
  
  Who knew teachers already mastered these skills? Ha!
  
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  - Duane Swacker says:
    
    April 14, 2013 at 10:50 am
    
    Yes a true “revolution” and not a “rheevolution” which many of us knew from the start was actually rheeactionary and rheegressive and would rheesult in much damage to innocents.
    
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