Once again teachers are being blamed for the shape of education today. Giving principal's more power just means they will be whipping us teachers harder and more often. Bloomberg mentions performance bonuses for schools that do well. Once again, the Plantation Owners are getting richer and the slaves are working harder. Does it matter to the owners if we quit? Not by any means. They will just find a new body to take our place.
Bloomberg proposed additional changes to the educational system, such as giving principals more power, determining funding per student rather than per school and making it harder for teachers to get tenure.
The mayor said the city was "building a more rigorous review process" to ensure "ineffective teachers are not awarded the privilege of tenure and the near-lifetime job security that comes with it.
The rantings of a teacher who retired from the classroom but not from education.
Thursday, January 18, 2007
Bloomberg and Tenure
Bloomberg again is talking about education reforms.
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That has been their policy for some time now, actually. The only variable is the teacher, according to Alonso.
Still, they're not averse to taking credit for good things, and even if the good things are based on phony accounting tricks, it's all good for them.
You are absolutely correct when you wrote:
> Does it matter to the owners if we quit? Not by any means. They will
> just find a new body to take our place.
Teachers have always been looked at as cheap labor by the mayors of NYC. This mayor would seem to be no different. Look at the support for the Teaching Fellows program's recruitment to see how easy it is to find "a new body".
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