Can you imagine the legislators of  your state inventing a new way to evaluate their profession, without inviting any members of the profession to have a say?

 

Can you imagine the legislators telling the medical profession how to evaluate doctors, but not asking the advice of any doctors?

 

Let’s not talk about lawyers, because most of them are lawyers, and they wouldn’t dream of evaluating themselves.

 

Here it is: a new plan to evaluate teachers, but no one knows what it means. Of course, the writer of the article assumes that the teachers’ union is the main opposition to legislated evaluation. They forget that parents don’t want test scores to be the most important way to judge the quality of their child, their school and their teachers. They don’t want the school to give up the arts so there is more time for test prep. They don’t want Albany telling their principal how to decide which teachers are best. Legislators don’t credit them with caring about their children.

 

Newsflash to Albany: Parents love their children more than you do.