Dear Michael,
I agree with you. The campaign to destroy the teaching profession is in full swing, as witness the story in yesterday's NY Times where Bill Gates says that seniority and tenure are problems and teachers should not be rewarded for experience or for master's degrees. This is all so wrong. The one thing that these actions would surely guarantee is an end to the teaching profession. And we would have a steady influx of inexperienced teachers, who stay for a year or two and move on; and inexperienced principals; and inexperienced superintendents. How would this improve American education? These trends should be resisted, not accepted.
Diane Ravitch
(The one line from the Gates article that really got my attention is this: "He (Gates) also urges an end to efforts to reduce class size." Hey Bill! Why didn't you ask me how to write a decent OS when Windows Vista headed south?
That's a rhetorical question.)
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Holy crap. I knew Bill was evil, but I didn't think he would point his flame thrower at the public school system. That makes me sick. I started a satirical blog about Republicans and I have a post about charter schools destroying the public school system, but now it doesn't seem as funny...
http://gopcore.blogspot.com/2010/12/magna-charter-school.html
Keep fighting.
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