EduShyster has a hilarious post about Kevin Huffman’s plan to “crush” the achievement gap in Tennessee:
Pay teachers less.
It starts with a photo of a young woman standing by the side of the road holding a sign that says, “Will Teach 4 Food.”
No extra pay for experience.
No extra pay for degrees.
Best of all, Huffman himself demonstrated that he could teach a great high school lesson without any prior experience or education or preparation. Or so the principal said who evaluated him.
Diane Ravitch's blog 
Good Lord! I almost took it seriously with the way outrageous things are happening in education! Slow on the uptake with it at first!
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I feel so sorry for that principal. What was he supposed to do? If you look at the rubric I can’t see how it’s even possible for him to have scored that high given what was in the article and the fact that he didn’t know the children.
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Huffman didn’t develop the lesson; the teacher, a very good one, did.
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I have heard she is very good. I have to wonder if it’s the lesson she would have taught had he not been there. From what I hear, she’s a way better teacher than him.
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Hilarious!! This reminds me of when in the movie Gladiator the character Commodus gets into the ring with Gladiators somehow showing he is just as tough. What a joke. Did this really happen? Wow, he really earned that extra 20k as merit pay for his outstanding performance in the classroom.
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I wonder, was it a lesson in irony????
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