Teacher Evaluations For Promotion

The only place I ever read the Post is in a bar.  A beer makes is the only thing that makes it readable.  Last week it had an editorial berating Farina's back to teacher instead of test evaluations for promotion.  Here are a few answers to that editorial.

Those Who Can't Teach

As I read different blogs with posts about the masterbater Lori Wheal's, I think about all the people I know who have left the classroom.  On the surface, they claim they want to make a difference, but that is not the real reason.  These people just can't deal with the classroom.  They don't know how to deal with difficult students.  Many of them are even afraid of the kids they teach.  It is so much easier to stand in front of a group of teachers and present mumbo jumbo theory that doesn't work than it is to work with children.  Adults will be polite, will not interrupt and be non threatening.  This often does not happen in the classroom.

As the saying goes, THOSE WHO CAN'T TEACH BECOME EDUCATION POLICY MAKERS.

A master teacher who really wanted to help students would not be running from the classroom, but running towards it.

And He Calls Himself A Reporter



Poor little Yoav Gonan of the NY Post is all upset and I do apologize.  I thought he had quoted me in an article but I was mistaken.  I guess I have been spending too much time reading rags like the Post and I followed their lead by not checking my facts before I wrote them. 

I hope Mr. Gonan realizes that the apology is for that and nothing else.  Mr. Gonan picks and chooses what he presents in his articles to elicit the responses he and his bosses so desire.  When I called him on his article he must have said what I wrote.  I know I didn't pull his comment out of the air. 

Gonan, in the comment he left on Ednotes, justifies his article by pointed out the sentence he wrote about Mulgrew.  Wow, he gave a whole sentence to the union's side.  Let's hear it for this fair guy. He said he didn't make it clear where he got his information from.  Isn't that a good reporter's job. He also takes no responsibility for the headline, blaming the editor's for its sensationalism  I reread the article and personally think the editor's did a great job when they chose that headline for his article.  It fit exactly what he wrote to the tee.

From Wikipedia:

Yellow journalism, or the yellow press, is a type of journalism that presents little or no legitimate well-researched news and instead uses eye-catching headlines to sell more newspapers.^[1] Techniques may include exaggerations of news events, scandal-mongering, or sensationalism.^[1] By extension, the term yellow journalism is used today as a pejorative to decry any journalism that treats news in an unprofessional or unethical fashion.^[2]

Mr. Gonan, your article was yellow journalism.  If there was a data report for journalists, you would get an F.