Jan Resseger: Why Denver Teachers Went on Strike

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1. Ohio Algebra II Teacher says:

   February 14, 2019 at 1:16 pm

   A good comment from one of this blog’s regulars:

   ciedie aech
   on February 12, 2019 at 2:00 pm
   As a person working inside a low-income school when ProComp was pushed onto teachers (sadly BY UNION LEADERS), I find it interesting that few grasp the fact that as teachers were told they would receive ‘bonuses’ for working in ‘hard-to-serve’ schools, these same ‘hard-to-serve’ schools (lowest income, largely non-White) were simultaneously going to be hit with endless test-score-based ‘reform’ invasions — invasions which demanded that teachers lose autonomy, lose professional respect, lose longevity status, lose any chance for having a voice in the suddenly punitive teachers-are-the-problem attitude coming from outsiders all over the nation. Getting a ‘bonus’ for working inside a school where teachers were treated ONLY as the problem and never heard could not in any way compensate for the terrible, never stable, never predictable test-score-based invasions. Because of NCLB and RttT, teachers were blamed and purposefully PUSHED out of the schools, new teachers were endlessly brought in, fewer and fewer hires got to experience autonomy and creative outlet. The bonuses came in — just as the job itself was turned into one few could stomach.

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