Occupy Education: Teachers, Students Resist School Closings, Privatizations, Layoffs and Rankings
Heard this on the radio this morning as I was getting ready to head over to Camp to teach the youngins.
Looks like the magic of NCLB if finally working as designed. The Business Roundtable, ALEC and the lunatic wingnuts are soiling themselves in glee! Their wish to close public schools and privatize education (not sure how-in-the-hell that's suppose to work) is fast becoming a reality.
One of the many things that struck me in this report on school 'reform', high-stakes testing, and teacher evaluations based on the results of these tests, is nobody mentioned the glaring fact that students DON'T GIVE A RAT'S #%& about the outcomes of these tests. They have ABSOLUTELY NO BUY-IN! Test scores do not affect their GPA, their chance of graduation or college admissions. THEY MEASURE NOTHING! THIS HAS BEEN PROVEN OVER AND OVER AGAIN. Just once I'd like to hear somebody mention that. Fat chance.
CLOSE ALL THE SCHOOLS DOWN AND LET THE YOUNGINS RUN FREE!!! IT WILL BE MAGICAL.
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