In response to Gary Rubinstein’s post about “the three stooges of reform,” reader “Chris in Florida” sent this comment:
From the article:
“Then the panel gets underway and three times I hear a new catch-phrase three times[sic]. In terms of accountability, schools that are not measuring up and teachers who are not getting the test scores they should will “lose the privilege of educating kids.” Such a nice way to say ‘get shut down’ or ‘get fired.’”
So now they are going to make our profession a ‘privilege’ instead of a job that one studies for, earns a degree in, attempts and receives certification in, and then applies for teaching jobs and gets hired to teach. BS.
This harkens back to the days when schools were run by unmarried women in poverty, religious brothers and sisters with vows of poverty, and men with families who lived in poverty because of the low wages for teachers.
Deep at the heart of this reform movement is a deep hatred of women, teachers, unions, independent thinkers, the middle class, people of color, the poor, and anything that threatens the old status quo of powerful, rich, racist old white men controlling everything. It is part and parcel of the culture wars and will be fought under that context. They are losing their grip and are squeezing ever tighter.
The ship is about to sink but they cling and insist that all is fine. I am beginning to understand that there is no way they can achieve a lasting victory here with this pathetic war against teacher, students, schools, and hippies.
I may be very old or dead when their final defeat is achieved but it will come.
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The rich simply don’t want to pay taxes for something they don’t use…public education. They seem to think that they accomplished everything on their own without a supportive family and social structure. Our society has become much more “me” oriented especially since the Reagan years. The wealthy with help of Republican politicians have led the charge to privatize public institutions such as public education, prison systems, even some highways and meter system for car parking with disastrous results across the board. Not everything is racism. I am sympathetic to the problems of discrimination but blaming everything on old white males turns an old white male like myself off and maybe even hostile.
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I would agree that it is not a simplistic as white male etc. I have seen some pretty cocky TFAers recently, some female, some minority, ALL considering themselves the best and brightest amongst the older, tenured teachers. It was rather bizarre. I don’t understand how two years in a classroom results in a leadership position, lording over those who know so much more than you.
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Michael, I’m an old white male myself.
You can call it what you’d like but I don’t think there is a much more accurate description of this:
Milton Friedman
Michael Bloomberg
Bill Gates
The Waltons (includes old white females)
Eli Broad (his wife is a partner, too)
Jeb Bush
The Koch Brothers
The list can be continued. Yes, there are some people of color and some women who have worked for the reformsters but these men listed here are the architects and the money behind the movement.
If your feelings are hurt by the truth maybe you need to examine your privilege. I have and do regularly.
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And by the way, take a look at the US House and Senate that are debating renewal of NCLB right now. And look at the governors and state legislative leaders, not to mention most of the candidates for president.
A predominance of old white men may be ‘simplistic’ and may hurt some feelings but to deny it to maintain the system.
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This old white male grew up in a household that was one payday away from being homeless. I wasn’t reasonably secure until I was in my 30’s. My parents were never secure even in old age. Because the list you provided is white males doesn’t mean they are racists because they succeeded. Let’s not conflate success with racism. Some of the worst racists in my opinion are those with the least success.
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Chris,
The old white woman running for president isn’t much better. I am an old white woman myself.
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Here’s a link to the block grants proposed under NCLB. It sounds like another tactic to funnel money to corporations. http://thinkprogress.org/education/2015/07/06/3676656/big-wins-no-child-left-behind-rewrite-conservatives-still-want-even-less-federal-government/
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Michael, if you think that these men aren’t racist then how do you explain the devastating loss of teachers of color in Chicago, NYC, Washington DC, New Orleans, Detroit, etc.?
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As I’ve stated before on this blog on a couple of occasions we can thank President Obama’s RttT policies that led to resegregation public schools virtually overnight for what took many years to at least partially integrate.. His support for charter schools is very strong and they have become the main vehicle for “motivated” students….white. Don’t you just love the irony? The resegregation of the public schools abetted by the policies of the first black president! How “cool” is that?
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The race card Is moot. Look at wiki’s article on affluence
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Affluence_in_the_United_States#Race
and in particular the pie chart. “Among the nearly twenty million households with six figure incomes, 86.9% were White.”
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Our government was bought and paid for while the middle class was too busy working to realize what was being done to them. Then Quid Pro Quomo set out on his endless reform agenda that kept educators so busy implementing multiple frivolous changes thatwe did not immediately notice that public education was being labeled a failure and abandoned. I’m starting to believe that the solution will not be at the polls but will be in the streets. Sorry to say that!
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I agree with you. I have been saying for a long time that if things continue as they are there will be civil unrest. As long as the public is so easily fooled by slick ads and lying politicians to vote against their own best interests, then it will be just a matter of time.
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The self-styled “education reform” movement would be significantly less effective if they weren’t a rainbow coalition of beneficiaries, enforcers and “thought” leaders.
IMHO, focus too much on any one aspect of their strike force, e.g., the race or gender or political label of particular rheephormsters, and you end up in the sort of FUD [fear/uncertainty/dread] discussion that the sneer, jeer and smear crowd thrives off of.
In fact, you end up with what in politics someone on this blog noted is worse than the “lesser of two evils”—the “more effective of two evils.”
I do not think any of the issues raised is unimportant, but I think that if we need to discuss color then often it’s best to go with—
Green. It’s not all about the children. It’s about the Benjamins. Follow the money.
That said, there will never be a perfect, one-size-fits-all way to approach defending ourselves from, or exposing, the rheephormistas. That’s because we are not dealing with people that deal with others in an ethical way that shows they have a moral compass.
Just two examples from Los Angeles USD. John Deasy and Patrena Shankling—and the way that a rainbow coalition of LATIMES writers kept loving them some Deasy (until they threw him under the bus recently) no matter the cost to Ms. Shankling. Rafe Esquith and all the others in teachers jail in LAUSD—another rainbow coalition of rheephormsters recklessly out to destroy an exemplar teacher and others long long before all the facts are in.
Again, IMHO, let’s not buy in [to use Rheephormish] to the notion that it’s all a zero sum game. That is, if you get respect and courtesy you are robbing it from me. That there’s always a few winners and a lot of losers and that winning isn’t everything, it’s the only thing.
I go with, as I see it, W. Edwards Deming on this. Let’s go for a win-win situation. The folks for a “better education for all” are an incredibly varied, and at times fractious, lot. Good. Let’s keep the heat on everyone, including ourselves. But sneering contempt and nasty accusations (however personally satisfying if fleeting) ain’t going to get us where we want to go. Where the rheephormsters parody and skewer themselves with their own sharp hypocrisy in words and deeds, have at them with everything they so richly deserve. And sharp disagreements amongst ourselves—absolutely!—but wherever possible giving respect to get respect.
Pollyannaish? Ok, but the times I’ve been tempted to let loose on this blog, well, besides the sensible “Rules of the Road” of this blog, just before I’ve been about to let fly I would suddenly remember things like—
Do I want to imitate a Michelle Rhee inviting John Merrow to film her firing a principal and publicly humiliate him before a national audience? Follow the lead of a John Deasy as he strolls with total ignorance and arrogance into the classroom of Ms. Patrena Shankling and abuse his position to fire an exemplary teacher? Emulate “Dr.” Steve Perry as he casually tweeted “The only way to lose a fight is to stop fighting. All this did was piss me off. It’s so on. Strap up, there will be head injuries” when the Hartford Board of Education wouldn’t bow down to him?
I impute nothing untoward about any of the commenters. Personally, I like the fire and the heat. That’s what genuine learning and teaching are about. But keep fighting fair.
Give respect. Get respect. Let’s show by our example what authentic dialogue looks like in practice.
Just my dos centavitos worth…
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Increased public awareness of what is going on will get more people to resist charters. Until the legislators feel the wrath of the collective public outrage, our elected officials will continue to accept funding while voting the pro charter line. Pro public school groups should make appointments with elected officials to urge them to support public education. They should present them with facts about the failure of privatization, the amount of waste and fraud associated with them, and the amount of damage sustained by public education. We must be organized, vigilant and put our elected representatives on the defensive. They will only respond if they fear for their seats.
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“They will only respond if they fear for their seats.”
It really is that simple a concept.
The educating and the organizing, the action, that is the hard part!
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From what I have heard, our education policy at the federal level is being made by young 20-somethings who just got out of college and who have no experience in teaching, in educating children, in raising children, or in life in general. They are very bright, but extremely competitive and ruthless in their zeal to get ahead. They are not concerned with children, but rather with themselves and their careers. They do not stay in their jobs as office staff to congressional personnel as they want to rise to the top quickly, leaving little continuity and experience among those who do all at the actual work of reading and writing the policies they push and advise their bosses to accept. Writing to a Senator or Representative does little good as it is the staff members who read the mail that the Senator or Representative never sees.
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Another reason they will fail is they are about to be busted. Governor Cuomo of NYS is soon to be indicted. His pals in the world, the people who don’t see anything except attached to a dollar sign, will soon feel the cold air of non-recognition by a new state legislature empowered to act for the people because they know there is a trove of wire taps waiting to be exposed. While we sit patiently waiting for the shoes to begin falling, I am glad it is not during the school year, that teachers will have some time to relax while the drama unfolds. There really are some very evil people in this world and Cuomo, unfortunately, is one of them and has stood in the way of a decent educational system flourishing in this state for too long.
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Wait, what? Cuomo about to be indicted? I’m far far away from New York. Direct me to where I can read about this exciting development.
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Melissa, no one knows for sure but the U.S.attorney for the southern district of New York has indicted the Speaker of the House and the leader of the State Senate. Many people wonder if Cuomo is next.
Our state has long had a tradition that all decisions are made by “three men in a room.” Two of the three are under indictment.
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It’s funny and very ironic that they mention “privilege” in the context that teaching is a “privilege” that can be taken away if teachers fail to meet “expectations”.
Privilege” is at the root of the “I know what is best not only for myself but for everyone else” attitude that is so prevalent among “reformers” (and our leaders in general)
Just listen to folks like Bill Gates for a few minutes.
The fellow thinks he is God’s gift to teachers, students, people in third world countries and to the human race in general.
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Well put!!!
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Remember Bill Gates sold something (MSDOS) to IBM that he didn’t yet have that made him an instant millionaire (billionaire?). After contracting with IBM he bought the operating system from the programmer who developed it for $50,000 as I recall. When the programmer realized what Gates did he sued him to get fair compensation. I forgot what the settlement was but it was in the many millions. The fact that Gates tried to screw the programmer (the foundation of his vast wealth) doesn’t mean he doesn’t put the welfare of children first!!!!
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THEY ARE BOUND TO LOSE!
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From Southwest Airlines, “Our Culture differs from other companies in that, in our “order of importance,” we put our Employees first”. Maybe they’re on to something.
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Today’s Wall Street Journal ( July 6, 2015, A-13) offers a summary of Rick Perry’s election salvo prepared for the National Press Club on July 2, 2015. He is electing to play the race card, specifically by making points intended to “earn the trust of African Americans.”
His speech is framed to suppress the Republican legacy of citing states rights (10th Amendment) to justify “keeping blacks from the voting booth and diner table.” He also says he is an “ardent believer in the 10th Amendment that says “the powers not delegated to the United States by the Constitution, nor prohibited by it to the States , are reserved for the States respectively, or to the people.” Why? Because “I know that state governments are more accountable to you than the federal government.”
Then he says ” I’m also an ardent believer in the 14th Amendment which says no state shall “deny to any person within its jurisdiction the equal protection of the laws.” Further the 14th Amendment “was one of the great contributions of the Republican Party to American life, second only to the abolition of slavery.”
In Perry’s selective dips into history and current events, Republicans lost “the black vote because we found we could win elections without it. But when we gave up trying to win the support of African-Americans, we lost our moral legitimacy as the party of Lincoln. As the party of equal opportunity for all. It is time to reclaim out heritage as the only party in our country founded on the principle of freedom for African Americans.
According to Perry, Democrats and their “left wing policies” –Throwing more money at the problem and walking away” are responsible for the dismal fate of black families. Specifics: Medicaid and the expansion under Obamacare,”… “the cities where left-wing solutions have been tried over and over again, places like Detroit and Chicago and Baltimore.” Also the “quarter of African-Americans” who “live below the poverty line even after the impact of federal programs like food stamps and housing subsidies,the supplemental poverty rate is for African-Americans is nearly double the rate for other Americans.”
He lays claims to major improvements in Texas education, a booming economy, low taxes and low regulations, a minimum of “frivolous lawsuits,”
He closes this way: “If we create jobs, incentivize work, reform our schools, and reduce the cost of living–we will have done more for African -Americans than the last three Democratic administrations combined.”
I will leave to historians and political scientists a discussion of the 10th and 14th Amendments, and selective omission of inconvenient truths (e.g., current Republican efforts to limit the power of all citizens to register and vote).
I think there is no doubt that Perry and others will be using the “equal protection” argument to accelerate the school choice movement, and the on ramp to re-segregated schools.
In this respect, he is offering comfort and support to the billionaire philanthropists who say they are rescuing African-Americans from “failing schools” and “terrible teachers” by supporting choice, scholarships, and vouchers.
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Anyone who thinks the Republican party today is anything like the party of Lincoln is choosing to ignore how history and how the ideologies of the two parties flipped over time. These are people who are also ignoring the racist policies that have been promoted by Republicans. at least since Barry Goldwater, as well as the fact that the GOP is the chosen party of the KKK, the John Birch Society, the Koch Brothers, who financed the establishment of their TeaParty faction, and numerous other racists like Rush Limbaugh, Glenn Beck, etc.
RWNJs claiming to not be racist and faking allegiance to “the party of Lincoln” is a ridiculous ruse that must be making Lincoln roll over in his grave.
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The ‘reformers’ also hate anything government does unless government is lining their pockets. For instance, vouchers “for the poor” have served as a foot in the door and a ‘front’ to expand them to pay for the private educations of the rich. Such schools also retain the right to discriminate against any child who’s poor, has low test scores, has parents who can’t volunteer at school due to job obligations or lack of transportation, or is handicapped. When it comes to feeding at the government trough, the ‘reformers’ leave welfare moms in the dust.
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How did the old white men get their claws into Obama? Obama and his appointee Duncan have done more harm then old white men…old white racist republicans.
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It goes back to Obama/s involvement with the Joyce Foundation in Chicago: http://www.ragingchickenpress.org/2013/07/10/chicago-school-closings-and-the-joyce-foundation-the-obama-connection/
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I’m sorry, but the “reformers” are not “losing.”
The “reforms” they propose –– more ‘rigorous’ standards, more testing, merit pay –– have no basis, but they proceed anyway. And, sadly, many public school educators go right along with their stoogery.
Think about who’s signed off on the COmmon Core.
For example, Randi Wiengarten of the AFT has said that the Common Core is a “foundation for better schools” that will prepare kids “success in college, life and careers.” Lily Eskelsen, vice-president of the NEA, said “We believe that this initiative is a critical first step in our nation’s effort to provide every student with a comprehensive, content-rich and complete education.” Byron V. Garrett said the “National PTA enthusiastically supports the adoption and implementation by all states of the Common Core State Standards, which were recently released in final form.”
The National School Boards Association, the National Association of Elementary School Principals, the National Association of Secondary School Principals, and the American Association of School Administrators issued a joint statement on the Common Core standards that makes clear that public education in the United States is in deeper trouble than many thought. These “leadership” groups’ statement said Common Core “tests are necessary” for “use in teacher and principal evaluation,” though they’d prefer some delays and the inclusion of other “timely data.” The ASCD is a Common Core enthusiast. Before he passed away recently, so was consultant Grant Wiggins.
You see the problem.
Worse, the Common Core has been tied tightly to ACT and SAT (and GED) testing, and to Advanced Placement courses and tests, and that’s because both the College Board and ACT, Inc. were key players in its development. Both ACT and the College Board sell products that allegedly assess “college and workforce readiness” and that are to be used in the middle and lower grades.
Too, the Common Core is tied into the emphasis on STEM. One central Virginia school system – which touts itself as one of the best in the state – recently turned all of its high schools into STEM ‘academies.’ As I’ve pointed out on this blog repeatedly, there is no STEM ‘shortage’ or ‘crisis.’ Quite the opposite. There’s a glut.
And yet, the Virginia Association of State Superintendents (VASS) –– another ‘leadership’ organization –– recently named the the ‘leader’ of this school district the “superintendent of the year” for 2016.
The award comes from VASS, but a VASS-selected panel –– comprised of the state superintendent of instruction, and the heads of the Virginia Education Association, state PTA and state school boards association, the executive director of the state ASCD, and the directors of the state associations of secondary and elementary school principals –– picked the winner. In other words, the top education “leaders” in the state –– those who should be familiar with research and evidence –– were responsible for choosing the state’s “best” superintendent. And they picked the ‘winner’ based on phony baloney. That’s more than just sloppy.
But wait, there’s more.
At its 2015 Spring conference – where the state’s school ‘leaders’ meet – the Virginia Association of School Superintendents(VASS) released a “New Blueprint” for the future of public education in the Commonwealth.
The “New Blueprint” uses words like “demands, world, global, recession, measure, future, prescriptions” to say – essentially – that the role of public education is to prepare students to “compete across the world.” This, by the way, is the core purpose of the Common Core. The Virginia superintendents call it a “shared vision.”
The “New Blueprint” calls for more expanded “pre-k learning experiences,” more flexible accountability systems, and more state funding – a LOT more state funding. The funding section takes up the biggest portion of the “New Blueprint.” So, what would that funding be used for, if the state superintendents got their way?
The “Blueprint” says that “evidence-based research” should be used to guide reform.
Then the report says the purpose of education is “to enhance student performance.” To do that teachers must be expert at obtaining and analyzing “data.” The superintendents advocate “differentiated compensation to reward meritorious performance”, i.e., merit pay. They obviously haven’t read – or don’t believe – what research says about merit pay.
In the “Blueprint,” the superintendents acknowledge that “teacher and staff morale is low” [sic]. How to fix this problem? Leadership, perhaps? Shared decision-making? Honest communication? Respect? Changing the organizational culture?
Nope. None of those. Not a one. Instead, the answer is that “professional development needs to address this issue” in order to improve “teacher and staff performance.” What might that look like? In that Virginia STEM-academy district, according to the VASS “superintendent of the year” award press release, it meant that more students were “enrolled in AP courses” and that the SAT scores of ‘economically disadvantaged” students in the district –– one of the most affluent in the state –– are higher than the state average. Never mind that the best predictor of SAT score is relative wealth, and – as we’ve known for a long time – the SAT test is not aligned closely with the school curriculum.
So, there it is. Our “leaders” have bought the goofiness. They dress it up a bit, put some new words on it, and push it as “reform” or a “New Blueprint.” It’s really just putting lipstick on the pig though, isn’t it?
Who is really the loser in all of this?
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democracy, I know you are deeply upset about the changes happening in Virginia and I commiserate with you.
My perspective is based upon my experiences here in Florida where most of the reforms began and which have been in place for about 15 years.
The facade is cracking here. Lawmakers are feeling the wrath of parents and voters. Things like reducing the amount test scores count on the sham VAM have been reduced. High-stakes testing is under the microscope. Schol grades are being questioned.
And all this is happening while the architect of the reforms, JEB! Bush, begins a run for the presidency amid the fawning legislators, newpaper editors, amd powerful of the state and they still question and critique the reforms when before nary a word against Bush was ever uttered here.
This is what gives me hope. The system here is unravelling, slowly but surely, and I believe the whole system nationally will follow suit as it did when the reforms were first put into place.
I wish you luck and I wish all my colleagues, families, students, and neighbors well. It will not be a pretty or easy fight to bring this collossus down but I think it will happen.
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I have to agree with Chris. Greed and hubris are the over-arching characteristics of reformsters aiming to bag the booty of public education, but that will be their downfall. They just scooted on by when they only targeted poor children of color, however, they weren’t satisfied with just a piece of the lucrative education pie and had to conquer all. “White suburban moms” and other stakeholders are empowered, worthy opponents though and they are not willing to just stand idly by and take whatever is dished out to them. I think it will be ending soon, too.
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A Chris and Teacher Ed:
If, indeed, bush wins the Republican nomination, see what happens to the scrutiny of his education “reforms.” And, do you think that both Bush and Clinton (if she gets the Dem nod) are going to say that Obama’s race to the Top and Common Core are deeply flawed?
I’d welcome that, but I won’t hold my breath.
Also, I used Virginia as an example. Virginia is considered to be a “good” education state. If what I described is happening (and it is) in a “good” education state, what’s transpiring in the others?
More than three million students take the ACT and SAT each year (not to mention the PSAT and “college and workforce readiness” tests), and the New York Times reported about a year-and-a-half ago that “the number of test takers has grown.” Moreover, many students take – and retake – BOTH tests. Students prep for them in pre-high school grades. As the Times noted regarding the ACT, “12 states now require, and pay for, all public high school juniors to take the test.”
But it goes beyond that. Since the Common Core came out – as the Boston Globe observed – “43 states have adopted the standards, with the stated aim of getting students college and career ready when they graduate from high school.” Thus, “the juggernaut of standards tied to high-stakes testing is in motion.”
Meanwhile, in North Carolina a state voucher program has led to an increase in publicly-funded private school enrollment. And in Florida, the state is paying prospective teachers a big bonus for high ACT or SAT scores, which, on its face, appears to be a state-funded sop to Teach for America.
Finally, as my earlier comment made clear, the “leaders” of top national organizations –– the AFT, NEA, ASCD, the National PTA, and more –– have all embraced the silliness.
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@ Chris and Teacher Ed:
Diane just posted this about Florida:
” Florida is a national leader in privatization. It now has more than 100,000 students using vouchers for private schools, including religious schools…Even more are enrolled in a burgeoning charter industry, despite the fact that charters regularly open and close, stranding students, and charters dominate the list of the state’s lowest-performing schools…Florida is a haven for for-profit entrepreneurs, who are encouraged by the state to open and compete with public schools, while sucking taxpayer dollars out of those public schools and funneling it to their investors.”
And yet, Chris maintains that “The system here is unravelling, slowly but surely…”
It appears that there’s quite a bit of unraveling to do….
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Yes, democracy, there is A LOT of unraveling to do. You can choose to be as negative as you want. I have certainly posted my share of negative, cynical comments here over the years.
I still maintain, however, that things ARE beginning to change here in reform central. There is a palpable difference that I have never seen, felt, or heard before.
People are questioning reforms that they always accepted in the past. This includes legislators (from both parties), citizen leaders, newspaper editors, parents, etc.
I can assure you that no such criticism existed before the last couple of years. I’ve suffered greatly for being an outspoken critic for years and I’ve been ostracized, threatened, demoted, and blackballed.
Now, however, the state legislature, for the 1st time ever, reigned in high-stakes testing. Was it enough? No. Was it complete? No. But most said it would never happen and it did.
The VAM sham was cemented in stone. And then suddenly the legislature changed the amount that test scores counts from 50% to 30% this year. Everyone said it would never happen. But it did.
Students are being held harmless, as are schools and teachers, until the new AIR tests are validated. Everyone said it would never happen here. It did.
I choose to be positive and to acknowledge that there are chinks appearing in the edifice of reform where before it seemed too big to bring down.
You don’t agree with me and that’s fine. But I maintain that change is coming and will come. I said it would be ugly, painful, and a long time coming. But it is coming!
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Sorry, Chris.
I’m not being negative, only realistic.
If you’ve read my comments on this blog, then you know what kind of public schooling I believe in.
But I don’t hold out false hope. Nor do I think that small tinkerings with what “reformers” have put in place are sufficient to undo the harm they’ve done. Nor does simply renaming goofy “reforms” make them go away.
As long as the “leaders” of public education go along with the nonsense (and they have) then genuine change will not take place.
As long as educators and parents and students buy into the ACT and SAT myths. real change will not happen.
As long as schools push STEM and “college and workplace readiness” – which are tied to Common Core – then small “chinks” in the “reform” wall will not undermine it and bring it down.
I would very much like to be proven wrong about this….but you have not presented me with any evidence for that.
Time will tell.
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‘First they ignore you. Then they laugh at you. Then they fight you. Then you win.’
We’re finally past the first two stages and they’ve got their fighting gloves on now. No one said it was going to be a short, easy battle, but you can’t win a war without engaging in critical conflicts.
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“This harkens back to the days when schools were run by unmarried women in poverty, religious brothers and sisters with vows of poverty, and men with families who lived in poverty because of the low wages for teachers.”
I have always believed, especially for those motivated against public schools by religious convictions or ideology, that there will not be contentment for pro-privatizing until teachers are like nuns.
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