tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6534665086749553287.post2167395730959537579..comments2024-03-28T11:57:21.902-04:00Comments on CURMUDGUCATION: Cami, Surgery & Big Stupid DemocracyPeter Greenehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16511193640285760299noreply@blogger.comBlogger3125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6534665086749553287.post-83933269594046117862014-04-26T07:13:16.504-04:002014-04-26T07:13:16.504-04:00Well, to Cami, yes, yes they are. To teachers, SHE...Well, to Cami, yes, yes they are. To teachers, SHE is the one in the second row. No, let's put her in the THIRD row. :P<br /><br />..."When I'm in my classroom, with someone's education literally in my hands, I do not ask a bunch of people in the second row to vote on whether or not to use developmentally inappropriate academic expectations or to teach the children I have in my room, where they are, at that moment. I do not have someone in the third row telling me that I have to use invalid data from an invalid test to evaluate my students and me. She does not have the five loudest (but nonetheless inexperienced) administrators who are pro-reform, shouting and banging on the door about whether she has a Data Wall or where she went to school and how the NCTQ rated that school, and then firing me and replacing me with a TFA corps member who has none of the qualifications I bring to the table. I want to be able to make decisions that are in the best interests of teaching those children, so that they are able to live as full lives as possible. We have that responsibility." <br /><br />How ironic that Cami wouldn't recognize that version of her speech.CrunchyMamahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14434606158400653601noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6534665086749553287.post-55933833624065221292014-04-25T15:00:12.210-04:002014-04-25T15:00:12.210-04:00Yes, but mere teachers aren't doing the import...Yes, but mere teachers aren't doing the important work. They're just more of those voices in the second row.Peter Greenehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16511193640285760299noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6534665086749553287.post-69308615768598581212014-04-25T14:34:11.060-04:002014-04-25T14:34:11.060-04:00"Her sister is a trauma surgeon, a general su..."Her sister is a trauma surgeon, a general surgeon, who cuts people open, and...when her sister is in the operating room, with someone's life literally in her hands, she does not ask a bunch of people in the second row to vote on whether or not to close or keep going. She does not have someone in the third row telling her that she has to use a rusty scalpel. She does not have the five loudest people who are anti-everything, shouting and banging on the door about the color of her hair or skin or where she went to school or not."<br /><br />Wow - how many teachers could have said this, pretty much word for word, about their own supervisors, their own professional situations?<br /><br />And how many of us would ALSO like to be able to say that "[we are] empowered to make decisions that are in the best interests of saving that patient, in saving his life so that he is able to live a life as full as possible. We have that responsibility."CrunchyMamahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14434606158400653601noreply@blogger.com