Comments on: It’s All About The Kids!

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Fri, 14 Mar 2008 17:29:00 +0000

Does anyone really think the timing of this three-pronged anti-union attack in the New York Times (Andy & Co, the “Center for Union Facts”) is actually coincidental?

By: NYC Educator

NYC Educator — Wed, 12 Mar 2008 23:37:00 +0000

Well, what are fat old white guys supposed to be doing?

Here’s the problem–they’re not offering nearly enough. Now if they offered a million bucks, teachers would be fighting one another to show how terrible they were, even if they weren’t.

I’ll bet people would become teachers just so they could quit and collect. Haven’t these fat white guys got any real money to toss around?

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Wed, 12 Mar 2008 15:08:00 +0000

How come all the boneheads who suggest these things are fat, old, white guys?

By: Michael

Michael — Wed, 12 Mar 2008 14:02:00 +0000

Here’s some info on the organization and the person behind the website, Rick Berman. Shady stuff: http://tinyurl.com/oaczm

Berman’s nickname is “Dr. Evil”
http://tinyurl.com/3257kf

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Wed, 12 Mar 2008 12:35:00 +0000

Apparently no one has looked at this from a supply issue. Suppose you kick out all the bad teachers. Where will all these high quality replacements come from?

No. The real answer is to prepare to teachers to teach. Policymakers and others need to stop thinking about solutions that are outside the work of teaching and start working on the core of education--which is the quality of teaching.

You can offer incentives, start charters, buy out bad teachers, lower class sizes. None of these will directly improve what teachers do to teach students in classrooms. It's like rearranging deck chairs on the Titanic. It looks like something different, but nothing has really changed.