Obama ed policy is a ****ing embarrassment. Now. May we not... in the name of all that is holy, good and decent.... drop this brain-dead corporate "reform" nonsense once and for all?
http://upload.democraticunderground.com/10022588780I will probably always get a smile from the name Smarmie Doofus, but then "A Hitchhiker's Guide" was one of the first games I ever played on the computer when it was C:\dos and all text.
BtW, This is a LARGE blaze best read at the DUmp ( or maybe that should be red when used with DUmp?)
Many prominent DUmmies show up to spout off.
Star Member Smarmie Doofus (9,497 posts)
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OK. Obama/Duncan/Gates School "Reform" Model: The results Are IN !!! Today's NYT: P. A1
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Obama ed policy is a ****ing embarrassment. Now. May we not... in the name of all that is holy, good and decent.... drop this brain-dead corporate "reform" nonsense once and for all?
Everything... *everything*... that real reformers ( mostly in-the-trenches, *unionized* teachers) told them was going to happen, HAPPENED in Atlanta.
None of these people --- Obama, Duncan, Gates--- know what they're doing. None of them know what they're talking about. Obama needs to wake the F up and appoint someone who knows about public education ( FROM PERSONAL AND PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE) as Sec of Ed so he can have someone to explain to him ( Obama) what public schools are like in America and how they work . Duncan can go work for Pearson or whatever ( His press sec just jumped ship to Murdoch, btw. Good. Getting these people out of the government is step #1.)
Please read. Carefully. Even if you don't think public ed is important ( ?!?), read it anyway. In it's entirety. The devil here is in the details.
While you're reading, please note and keep in mind the following above all else: the cheating would never have gotten off the ground... never would have had a CHANCE... if the lower end people in the conspiracy... ok ( "alleged" conspiracy)... that is: the *teachers*.... had told the principal and superintendent to ****-OFF when they were approached. A functional teachers union and state guarantees of due process ( TENURE ! ) job protections would have made that possible. And LIKELY.
As Obama, Gates, Duncan et al continue to hack away at these protections the less likely teachers are to blow the whistle and the MORE likely corruption of all variety... esp of the variety above... will proliferate.
It's simple cause and effect and it is not rocket science.
>>>>Dr. Hall, who retired in 2011, was charged with racketeering, theft, influencing witnesses, conspiracy and making false statements. Prosecutors recommended a $7.5 million bond for her; she could face up to 45 years in prison.
During the decade she led the district of 52,000 children, many of them poor and African-American, Atlanta students often outperformed wealthier suburban districts on state tests.
Those test scores brought her fame — in 2009, the American Association of School Administrators named her superintendent of the year and Arne Duncan, the secretary of education, hosted her at the White House.
And fortune — she earned more than $500,000 in performance bonuses while superintendent.
On Friday, prosecutors essentially said it really was too good to be true. Dr. Hall and the 34 teachers, principals and administrators “conspired to either cheat, conceal cheating or retaliate against whistle-blowers in an effort to bolster C.R.C.T. scores for the benefit of financial rewards associated with high test scores,†the indictment said, referring to the state’s Criterion-Referenced Competency Test.
Reached late Friday, Richard Deane, Dr. Hall’s lawyer, said they were digesting the indictment and making arrangements for bond. “We’re pretty busy,†he said.>>>>>>
http://www.nytimes.com/2013/03/30/us/former-school-chief-in-atlanta-indicted-in-cheating-scandal.html?pagewanted=all
I loved this
Star Member proud2BlibKansan (96,080 posts)
12. And she wouldn't have been caught if the teachers hadn't told on her.
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Don't forget that part. And AFT helped them. Sure they could have spoken up years before this testing crap started. But you and I both know that's not very realistic. But please let's give the teachers and their union credit for doing the right thing to help bring this fraud to a halt.
She gets her brain bucket slammed up her rectum by the very next poster.
Star Member cherokeeprogressive (14,561 posts)
67. Except that isn't how I would generally describe what happened...
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Teachers stonewalled in the beginning. Finally, the investigator broke one down with his never-ending presence.
"For weeks that fall, Mr. Hyde had been stonewalled and lied to by teachers at Venetian Hills including Ms. Parks, who at one point, stood in her classroom doorway and blocked him from entering.
But day after day he returned to question people, and eventually his presence weighed so heavily on Ms. Parks that she said she felt a terrible need to confess her sins. “I wanted to repent,†she recalled in an interview. “I wanted to clear my conscience.â€
Ms. Parks told Mr. Hyde that the cheating had been going on at least since 2004 and was overseen by the principal, who wore gloves so as not to leave her fingerprints on the answer sheets."
The cheating had been going on for the better part of a decade. Had the teachers "done the right thing", it would have been exposed as soon as it started in earnest.
Oh yes, this OP was Juried ...
Star Member Logical (7,290 posts)
17. LOL, someone alerted this and lost badly! Here are the results!
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At Sat Mar 30, 2013, 07:52 AM an alert was sent on the following post:
OK. Obama/Duncan/Gates School "Reform" Model: The results Are IN !!! Today's NYT: P. A1
http://www.democraticunderground.com/10022588780
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This post is disruptive, hurtful, rude, insensitive, over-the-top, or otherwise inappropriate. (See <a href="http://www.democraticunderground.com/?com=aboutus#communitystandards" target="_blank">Community Standards[/url].)
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"explain to him ( Obama) what public schools are like in America"
The President of the UNITED STATES doesn't need to be taught how 'things are in America.' That's a birtheresque comment that shouldn't be allowed to stand on DU.
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