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Squinch
(51,021 posts)board listens to him at all?
What a great speech.
geefloyd46
(1,939 posts)I found this on an education website but I can vouch what he is talking about is a national goal. Education money is the modern day gold rush for all those that can get their hands on the public's money. The poorer the district the more these people, who have never given the people in these districts the time of the day, come out of the woodwork "to help." It is a tough job they have. They have to convince parents the people who spend multiple hours a day could care less about their kids while the ones who won't go near them has nothing but love in their hearts.
Squinch
(51,021 posts)that are profiting from it.
Like, for example, did you know that the head of Teach For America is a major stockholder in Pearson? And those teacher evaluations being developed in Stamford? Pearson and Gates are funding that. So Pearson is the company that is making the test that is the major element in the teacher evaluations that Pearson is developing.
And at the bottom of it all is privatization and commodification and profit-mongering. As an overriding goal, education is nowhere in sight.
geefloyd46
(1,939 posts)I still like the time that Pearson took a group of superintendents to Singapore which, last time I checked, was not in The United States.
Squinch
(51,021 posts)geefloyd46
(1,939 posts)He is no longer working in education but now is a lobbyist for Pearson. Just last year he went to speak to the Texas legislature not as a lobbyist but rather as a concern citizen in Texas. Somehow along the way money for educators disappeared but the money that was destined for Pearson was left intact. No one could figure out how it happened.
Squinch
(51,021 posts)sad gulags.
I am not a teacher, but I work in a number of schools, and work with a lot of teachers. In the past 10 years, their lives have become hell. I feel terribly for them.
No one in their right mind should become a teacher nowadays.
geefloyd46
(1,939 posts)and I'll tell you everyone is talking about getting out. They are turning this into the peace corp do a year or two before you realize what is happening and then its time to find a "real" job. Only the business opportunity will be left behind. That's because labor is cheap and human life has little value.
Squinch
(51,021 posts)Which means we are losing the ability throughout the system to do anything else. When this current insanity is over, all those who actually know how to teach will be gone, so no one will be there to teach the newer teachers how to effectively teach as opposed to training kids to take a test.
In one of the schools I work in, two teachers have simply walked away and not come back. No notice, just walked away. A third one seems to be eying the door. And this isn't one of those schools where the administration is out to get them. The administration is doing their best for the teachers, but the pressures are too great.
Smarmie Doofus
(14,498 posts)>>>It is a tough job they have. They have to convince parents the people who spend multiple hours a day could care less about their kids while the ones who won't go near them has nothing but love in their hearts.>>>>
One would think so.
geefloyd46
(1,939 posts)and they have nothing but love in their hearts for Tennessee's children. Just send them a check.
Squinch
(51,021 posts)Fridays Child
(23,998 posts)maddiemom
(5,106 posts)and parent. In fact, I lived near Knoxville for a short time, but as a stay at home parent of a pre-schooler at the time. I can't pretend any knowledge of the situation presented, but I am also curious as to what happened.
geefloyd46
(1,939 posts)as this was February 5th.
maddiemom
(5,106 posts)DamnYankeeInHouston
(1,365 posts)a "teacher" is a minimum wage worker watching fifty kids at computers all day. I retired early, after 33 years, because I could not endure the attacks on my colleagues from predator administrators or bear to watch the dismantling of our education system for profit.