Late last night, I put up a post that congratulated TIME for its “fair and balanced” coverage of the Opt Out movement. I almost called it favorable. I contrasted the article with TIME’s infamous cover stories about teacher-bashing Rhee and “Rotten Apples,” which made the absurd claim that it is nearly impossible to fire teachers but Silicon Valley millionaires were riding to the rescue with a strategy to eliminate tenure.
However, a reader pointed out that the opt-out story was printed earlier on another website. I don’t think we will ever see this article in the print edition of TIME. As I noted in the original post, it was written by an Associated Press writer, not TIME staff.
Until we see a cover story in TIME honoring America’s dedicated, underpaid teachers or a story revealing the investment, involvement and motives of the billionaires in league to privatize public education and destroy the teaching profession, we will continue to see it as an ally and handmaiden of corporate reform. As a mass circulation magazine, TIME should remember that there are many millions of teachers and parents of public school students, and fewer than 500 billionaires.
But they did put Kanye West on the cover, he who makes millions by singing RAP music that would make the devil blush. No Time isn’t on the side of angels like teachers, nurses, firemen or people who actually are the last bastions of morality in society, Time is interested in people with money, how they make it what their character is, how they spend it on themselves only that doesn’t matter. Time went south morally along time ago.
“Time is interested in people with money,”
The saying goes: “Time is money”.
” TIME” is a-wasting.
[Not just a pun.]
I no longer read TIME and I certainly do not use TIME FOR KIDS in my classroom.
Well you don’t need a weatherman (or TIME Magazine) to tell which way the wind’s blowing.
I didn’t re-up my subscription after Time ran a small blurb saying TFA “passed an important test”. From what I read, Hayley Sweetland Edwards is married to a teacher. My guess is he teaches in a charter, she hold little regard or his career, or she has no backbone to stand up to her editor.
This is exactly why I (we!) love you so much, Diane–you take a good, analytical look at things and you admit when you’re wrong about something, then right the ship, no matter how busy you get. More than that, you care.
Exactly what the ed. reformers will never do. $$$$
Too good to be true because they don’t print the truth.
http://blogs.edweek.org/edweek/leadership_360/2015/04/addressing_mental_health_concerns_a_key_to_school_improvement.html#
Here’s a good read for anyone interested. The need for a broader approach to school improvement strategies.
I have an awesome classroom library that is complete with magazines. My high school students love to read magazines! However, I will not have TIME in my classroom. Has anybody noticed how thin the issues have gotten? It seems to be wasting away.
On a positive note, NEWSWEEK just published
a good op ed on declining teacher morale
and its causes. However, but yeah… the author’s
apparently short memory does not lead him to
include as a cause NEWSWEEK’s appalling cover story
by Evan Thomas of a a few years ago—March 5, 2010.
First, today’s article:
http://www.newsweek.com/why-has-teacher-morale-plummeted-321447
To refresh the memory, here’s the Evan Thomas atrocity:
http://www.newsweek.com/why-we-must-fire-bad-teachers-69467
While browsing the latter, I just chanced upon this doozy:
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EVAN THOMAS: “KIPP schools don’t cherry-pick—they take anyone who will sign a contract to play by the rules, which require some parental involvement.”
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Hey Evan!!!! Demanding prospective parents sign a “play-the-rules-or-else” contract, and demanding parents do all kinds of unpaid “parental involvement” volunteer work… again,”or else”?
Doing stuff like this designed to cream an “easier-to-educate” student body whose parents are more dedicated to their students’ education—i.e. engaging in practices that traditional public schools are legally barred from doing, and that would be met with swift punishments and lawsuits…
THAT’S CHERRY-PICKING!!!!