Mercedes Schneider: Former Baltimore County Superintendent Dallas Dance Indicted

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1. SomeDAM Poet says:

   January 26, 2018 at 10:44 am

   “Last Dance”

   The Dance
   Is indicted
   The man’s
   Un-invited

   His actions
   Are done
   Infractions
   Have won

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   • SomeDAM Poet says:

     January 26, 2018 at 10:50 am

     “Dancing with the Bars”

     Dallas Dance is dancing
     Dancing with the bars
     Courting and romancing
     Lawyers for the stars

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     • Lloyd Lofthouse says:

       January 26, 2018 at 12:51 pm

       How about a slight revision to “Dancing Behind the Bars”?

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     • SomeDAM Poet says:

       January 26, 2018 at 1:02 pm

       He’s not quite there yet, which is why I called it “dancing with” instead of behind.

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2. Chiara says:

   January 26, 2018 at 10:59 am

   There’s so much of this. They’re hiring “brand ambassadors” for charter programs and online “blended learning” platforms now.

   I don’t know how ordinary people will determine who is on what payroll and who to trust as an honest broker. They’ll have to research so much.

   We had a school “imagining” session a couple of years ago and I was frantically Googling the consultant because he sounded like a salesman for High Tech High. He WAS essentially a salesman for High Tech High. It’ll be a full time job sorting thru all the LLC’s and various entities and determining if you’re getting scammed.

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3. Chiara says:

   January 26, 2018 at 11:12 am

   Here’s another glowing piece promoting AltSchool:

   “For teachers, and particularly for parents, the move to competency-based assessment that accompanies personalized learning can be challenging. “It’s a paradigm shift for a lot of people,” Vannasdall says. “But what we’re seeing is–these kids want to come to school, they want to show up. It’s no longer the teacher’s classroom, so to speak.”

   Altschool is a company. They’re pushing a product. There’s nothing wrong with that- it’s what companies do. But why this insistence that they’re somehow “giving” these schools something? That they have some “mission” that is somehow holier and more pure than any other contractor?

   This nutty idea that public schools are somehow LUCKY enough to have attracted the attention of ed tech investors and that we are beholden to them and must shift “paradigms” to go along with the contractor is ridiculous.

   Public schools are a huge market. Contractors serve YOU, you don’t serve them. This is a business transaction. They want in your school because they want to test drive product on YOUR students. You shouldn’t be paying them, they should be paying YOU.

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   • dianeravitch says:

     January 26, 2018 at 7:08 pm

     Funny to write a glowing report on ALTSchool as it collapses

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4. Yvonne Siu-Runyan says:

   January 26, 2018 at 11:46 am

   I have a NEW word: “EW” = Electronic World. We are being EW-ed (expression of disgust or distaste) by those who think everything should be online. I beg to differ.

   EW is limiting, and that is what those in EW want —to limit us.

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5. retiredbutmissthekids says:

   January 27, 2018 at 1:24 am

   Mercedes Schneider, how do we get in touch w/you?
   Paul Vallas is planning to run for mayor in Chicago, & a columnist had praised him for his
   work in New Orleans (!) Philadelphia (!) (have to contact Helen Gym) Bridgeport, CT. (ditto to you, Jonathan Pelto) &–get this–Haiti (yeah, right).

   Chicago voters need to be disabused of the notion that Vallas “improved” these school districts, pronto.

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   • dianeravitch says:

     January 27, 2018 at 1:40 am

     Mercedes is Deutsch29@aol.com

     Vallas was a disaster in Philadelphia.

     He launched a vast experiment in privatization, which failed. He left the District with a large deficit.

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     • dianeravitch says:

       January 27, 2018 at 1:42 am

       Vallas was driven out of Bridgeport. State law requires that superintendents have a degree in administration. He had none.

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