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I'm afraid we're already there, wit...Scott,<br />I'm afraid we're already there, with our elections privatized, our legislation written by the likes of ALEC, and Governors like Scott Walker already in the employ of the Kochs.Anonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11714162934602511244noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-626361365897531793.post-20771656082467658642013-01-03T20:43:40.024-08:002013-01-03T20:43:40.024-08:00Katie,
Thanks for this article and thanks to you ...Katie,<br /><br />Thanks for this article and thanks to you (and all of educator readers) for your service. <br /><br />Some of the points about political agendas, are especially interesting in the after glow of the fiscal cliff debacle. This, of course follows the insipid, melodramatic, deceitful, sinfully-expensive, election cycle.<br /><br />It seems especially ironic that Congress has long insisted on dictating how teachers should run their classrooms, or superintendents should run their districts when they continually exhibit such prodigious levels of dysfunction, in their postitions.<br /><br />Since the prevailing reflex in Washington and in many state capitols is to privatize everything, and get rid of the bad (teachers, principals, state employee), perhaps we should extend that logic and privatize our legislative process. I'm sure there are numerous companies that would step up to provide us with senators and representatives that we could hire on monthly contracts.<br /><br />Scott Smith (a parent) <br />Grand Rapids, Michigan<br />Scott Smithhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12189767595575471099noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-626361365897531793.post-83703901790225624552013-01-03T17:08:25.904-08:002013-01-03T17:08:25.904-08:00Make no mistake... Ms. Katie's blog here is no...Make no mistake... Ms. Katie's blog here is not just ramblings. It is a very coherent and articulate statement about the state of our educational system right now and it's potential fate from a very unique and valuable point of view.<br /><br />In my own view, a public that is eager to shut down under-performing public schools rather than find out why they are under-performing and fix and keep them is a very cynical public. It causes me to wonder what causes people to become so impatient with the process of school improvement that they would allow public education to be jeopardized like this. Who is telling them that the correct thing to do when a part of a system is having trouble is to lose your patience, scrap the whole thing, give up, and try some pie-in-the-sky idea that goes against what decades or even centuries of experience has told us works? Do we do that with our kids when they are working on a project? No. We tell them to keep all the hard work they've done so far, focus on the specific problem area, and put some creative energy into solving that problem. Don't give up! Well, we all know who is telling our public to scrap the whole public education system. Our "businessman-politicians" and governer. And gee... why would they do that? It wouldn't have anything to do with profits now would it? A business/corporate type? Looking out for his own bottom line at the expense of the public good? Why never! (Sarcasm.)<br /><br />As a parent, I've always felt emotional about the subject of making sure my children have positive educational experiences. In fact, as an educator I am even more driven when it comes to other peoples' kids having positive educational experiences, because I know my children already have the advantage of being raised by educators at home. But even as emotional as I can feel at the thought of a horrible teacher (and I have met them) scarring a child or cheating them out of a year's worth of quality education, I've always been able to keep those thoughts in perspective based on a few things. <br /><br />One is, I realize that, just as not every doctor in a given hospital will be good, just the same, not every teacher in a given district will be good. And realistically speaking, the best we can really do is to keep working on measures to ensure quality, but we cannot realistically expect any educational system or institution to be perfect. <br /><br />And another is, I realize that when I do things or take an attitude that hurts the entirety of public education just because of a handful of problem areas within public education that could really be fixed if we invested time, money, and creative energy into them... what I'm really doing is hurting the very children who depend on public education to be there for them.<br /><br />Finally, and this is the most important point... if people trash the public education system in an attempt to "reinvent the education wheel," without having figured out and solved the problems we had with the first educational system, the same mistakes will continue to be repeated. In fact, the same mistakes and worse as well, because we're not even taking care to take and keep the things that WERE working well and bring those into the new model.<br /><br />Kind of makes you wonder about the real intentions of these lawmakers who are pushing "education reform." Well... it doesn't make me wonder. I already know. But to those who aren't sure... Yes. It's about them making the most profit they can off of our childrens' education, and trying to put an end to our efforts to provide educational equality for all children. It's about their myopic worldview that "the more the commoners have, the less we have," (just like the attitude behind Romney's 47% statement.) And no. It doesn't feel right... because it is not right.Anonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17638931714985356751noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-626361365897531793.post-81063163305827273992012-12-29T07:40:13.075-08:002012-12-29T07:40:13.075-08:00Katie and Friends,
I am loving your article Katie,...Katie and Friends,<br />I am loving your article Katie, it is right on in every way.<br /><br />No more! No MORE!!! NO MORE!!!!<br /><br />I have contacted Ed Schultz, Diane Ravitch, a production company in California, Michelle Alexander, author of The New Jim Crow who teaches at Ohio State, state senator and superintendents in Michigan, I have a panel ready to go with the media when we get someone to pick up the ball and run with it.<br /><br />I have been in touch with Parents Across America in Chicago about a project for Preserving Public Education based on “Hands Across America in 1986,” where, state by state, we join together, simultaneously, on the same weekend afternoon, and celebrate public education and present the cold, hard facts of privatization to the public, connecting our cause across America… remember “This land is your land, this land is our land?”<br /><br />I have been relentless since running for state rep in Ohio as former Ohio Teacher of the Year and being kept out of the Statehouse by a malicious 1.5 million dollar ad campaign the last 2 weeks of the election of which Michelle Rhee was a player. I am determined to join others and take action from the Outside/ In where ever, whenever and however we can.<br /><br />As a 29-year veteran educator and supporter/supervisor/facilitator for over 250 IEP/IAT meetings in my elementary school each year, you have got it right!!!<br /><br />These are perilous times for our kids who are fragile, vulnerable and at risk. Taking the experts out of the equation and ping-ponging children across town in the name of for-profit avarice and greed is destroying our children and their crucial connection to community. Fast forward to the next horrific tragedy involving our "lost children," disconnected from the professional expertise, guidance and care they so desperately need.<br /><br />We ALL have the momentum and the power to get moving on CIVIL / HUMAN rights issue of our time, namely, protecting our children and preserving public education.<br /><br />It is time to take action from the Outside/ In.<br />Keep contacting people in a position to bring Katie’s facts to light, keep going with reaching your contacts, newspaper columnists, talk show hosts, etc.<br /><br />Keep moving with your words, your expertise, your stories, your ACTIONS.<br /><br />Keep doing what you can to save our children and public education.<br /><br />Thank you Katie, thank you Diane Ravitch, thank you to all friends/ education professionals who are fighting for public education and our precious children, the real victims of corporate reform.<br /><br />Maureen Reedy<br />Parent/ 29 year public school teacher<br />Columbus, Ohio<br />Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-626361365897531793.post-86942405239013464422012-12-29T06:54:15.726-08:002012-12-29T06:54:15.726-08:00Neither Michelle Rhee nor Arne Duncan have the qua...Neither Michelle Rhee nor Arne Duncan have the qualifications to be hired as even a substitute teacher where I live and work. Why the hell they're in charge of promulgating bull[poop] policies and "reforms" and why people are taking them seriously is beyond me. :-(<br /><br />After my kids finally got old enough to go to school and allow me to get back into the classroom, I busted my backside to renew my certification in my state.... and promptly discovered that nobody here is hiring music teachers. *sigh* So I've been substituting instead, mostly in my kids' school (which has a low average SES despite a magnet program designed to balance that out) but also as a music teacher part-time in another (MUCH MUCH wealthier!) school in the same district, and the stuff I see even in our relatively progressive and highly-regarded system, the unrealistic and outright developmentally-inappropriate expectations of the very youngest children, is deeply disappointing. I've decided that I"m not in a hurry to go into a system that now requires me as an elementary music teacher to teach X concepts on Week [number] of Marking Period [number] without even allowances for days off (staff development/in-service, Election Day, parent conferences, bad weather). Sorry, that's just nuts.<br /><br />Here at least in our suburban school system we haven't had school closings or takeovers as a result of these policies (one small town school was closed and combined with another small-town school, but that had been in the works for years), but our system works differently here. Not far away in DC, though - that's another story, too much like yours. :-(Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-626361365897531793.post-22111356853990762892012-12-29T05:51:01.333-08:002012-12-29T05:51:01.333-08:00Perhaps the biggest problem in this whole reform m...Perhaps the biggest problem in this whole reform movement is that those who design, legislate, and promulgate the policies are NOT educators. . . . 95% of them are politicians, business owners, lawyers, lobbyists, etc., all of whom have never taught and don't backgrounds in education. Until we pass laws that alter the proportion of who is and who is not an educator at the law making round table, we wil never put a real dent into pushing back against corporate reforms in education. <br /><br />Sincerely,<br />Robert Rendo<br />http://thetruthoneducationreform.blogspot.com/?view=snapshot<br /><br />Robert Rendohttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06772947719086092479noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-626361365897531793.post-18776453735224884892012-12-28T14:15:22.438-08:002012-12-28T14:15:22.438-08:00The opportunity for "teachable moments" ...The opportunity for "teachable moments" is disappearing. Along with it is the opportunity for true collaboration-the fluid team-building between adults and children where team members feel out their strengths, their roles, and lend them to create the best final product. Standardization is robbing the public school "choice" of that dynamic, human learning. The "top shelf" choice for the elite pushing reform will preserve tat style learning for the children being groomed to lead. The rest will be left with the "choice" to get into line, to fill in the bubbles, and be taught in a setting where everyone is trained to be standard or be afraid. They cannot sell tests no one will buy. They can't hide behind politicians if the politicians are made to realize they will be held accountable. Our number one obligation is to maximize potential, not standardize it for maximum testing industry profit.<br /><br /><br /><br />https://petitions.whitehouse.gov/petition/cease-harmful-public-education-policies-relying-standardized-testing/w8ZrZwVTDan McConnellhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02679284479998846344noreply@blogger.com