Re: Thoughts on Obama's Race to the Top

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These are not good times....
And Everything is very political in and out of education.
Politics invented education - we are public schools after all.

I don't like it either but I fundamentally understand that
for the several billion dollars spent on education every
year, the public wants something more in return than just the
fact that we have our doors open and some kids show up at
school.

What else can we suggest? We can't just constantly bemoan
what they do without coming up with an accountability process
to suggest as an alternative. I'd like to see surveys - is
our community happy with our school? While not everybody
might be if enough people are, then we deserve our funding.

> What are your thoughts on Race to the Top. It sounds like
> a new and more terrible addition to NCLB. What are Obama
> and his lackeys--CRAZY! Any teacher who supports this
> nonsense is crazy too!! How on earth can teacher
> evaluations be tied to test scores? That is holding
> teachers in Watts to the same standard as Beverly Hills!
> Also, some years are harder than others. And yet the
> funding is given to state that promote this garbage. I
> can't believe there is anyone out there who thinks this is
> a good idea.
>
> Then it will get very political. The suck up lackey
> teacher will win the best kids. Those who don't suck up
> could get the low kids with behavioral issues.
>
> This is not a good time to be a teacher.
 

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