
Rickster71
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Ad hominems aside, this isn't about me.Rickster, you seem to have a personal grudge against educators. Did you have a bad experience in school? Or is it you think we have it too easy?
It's about the main point of the OP's article.
It's about the way you dismissed the Cartel Movie as propaganda. (without seeing it)
It's the way you also dismissed the dismal global rankings of U.S. schools; compared to the obscene monies we spend on it.
When a person working in the private sector goes in for an annual evaluation, they don't have the luxury of blaming the system, or the customer.
And even if they did; if expectations aren't met, the are let go.
This article states that the NCLB Act cost taxpayers well over $100 Billion. http://www.eric.ed.gov/ERICWebPortal/search/detailmini.jsp?_nfpb=true&_&ERICExtSearch_SearchValue_0=EJ683120&ERICExtSearch_SearchType_0=no&accno=EJ683120I've been in teaching for 10+ years and our operating budgets have been cut every single year. If that is throwing money at the problem, apparently I work in the wrong district.
That's partially what was meant by throwing good money after bad.