Neoliberalism: The Ideology That Dares Not Speak Its Name

[Bob Butler 54]

(01-01-2017, 10:02 AM)Odin Wrote: The problem with performance-based evaluation is that a lot of things that go into kids' academic performance is completely outside of teacher's control. It's not the teachers' fault for a student having a poor home life or for a student having parents who are dullards or anti-intellectual. Performance-based evaluation leads to teachers trying to avoid teaching in low-income, underprivileged communities.

You need to quit believing all the right-wing propaganda about teachers' unions, Warren. It makes you look pathetic.

My sister taught first grade in a wealthy seacoast Boston suburb, and was for a time a low level union person.  She always said the politicians promised easy answers that didn't help.  Time spent doing politically mandated stuff could instead be spent teaching.  The politicians were generally more interested in votes than the kids.  At least in her school system, which admittedly featured decent funding a lot of good parents, the locals were trying to do the best they could in spite of stated and federal government interference.  The dynamic could be different elsewhere.

So, agreed, the stuff Warren is parroting has nothing to do with what I've heard from a professional.  He seems locked in Propagandaville.

This whole thing seems be a reverse on the usual Republican perspective.  In most issues, Republicans aren't into regulations and interference in local affairs.  You let the locals make their own decisions.  It got flipped around somehow.  I suspect it was the Democratic support for unions and education.  Anything the Democrats are for they have to be against.