tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6534665086749553287.post2456250396372403822..comments2024-03-28T19:47:39.985-04:00Comments on CURMUDGUCATION: Choice and GuaranteesPeter Greenehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16511193640285760299noreply@blogger.comBlogger3125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6534665086749553287.post-81966901468614658292017-05-01T09:43:16.511-04:002017-05-01T09:43:16.511-04:00"I'll have what they had." Thanks..."I'll have what they had." Thanks Peter for another truth meal. It made me hungry.Barry Lanehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14317415030562597578noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6534665086749553287.post-76563027511249445622017-04-30T06:25:59.018-04:002017-04-30T06:25:59.018-04:00Great piece. Thank you. Great piece. Thank you. Maestradeespañolhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12564778592841088552noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6534665086749553287.post-36674486211618926362017-04-29T20:38:20.079-04:002017-04-29T20:38:20.079-04:00Peter, I know of one corporate ed. reform group th...Peter, I know of one corporate ed. reform group that offers a quote-unquote "guarantee" that they will "transform" your school into a "great school" --- via conversion to a charter school and firing all the teachers --- promising college acceptances and degrees and great careers for all the students who attend this newly privatized, "transformed" and now newly "great school."<br /><br />Heck, they even quantify the number of years that it will take to do so. They'll do all this "within three years". <br /><br />(I wonder how they came up with that three-year time frame. Why not four or five or more?)<br /><br />Watch this video:<br /><br />( 1:06 - 1:16 )<br />https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z__M8t4zUjw<br />( 1:06 - 1:16 )<br /><br />LATINO WOMAN: "If you get 51% of the parents at your school to sign up for the Parent Revolution, we GUARANTEE that we will give your child a great school, within three years."<br /><br />They've only done this "Parent Trigger" in one school, and according this article, it's a total freakin' fiasco:<br /><br />http://capitalandmain.com/adelanto-report-card-year-zero-of-the-parent-trigger-revolution<br /><br />CAPITAL & MAIN:<br /><br />"The former Desert Trails teachers characterize the abundance of public school teaching jobs not as their reason for leaving Desert Trails, but as a means of escaping what they say became an increasingly unbearable and capriciously erratic place to teach.<br /><br />“ 'We were always getting conflicting information from our superiors,' Salazar said. 'I was told by multiple different supervisors what things were okay to do. Second grade was told, ‘Do not use Treasures,’ which is the core reading curriculum. It includes phonics, spelling, grammar, writing, components of social studies, science and all of your reading and reading comprehension strategies. So for months at a time, we improvised; we used other support material, we tried to hit every standard to the best possible way that we could without using that curriculum. And two months later, Debra Tarver comes in and says, ‘Oh my god, why aren’t you using Treasures?' <br /><br />" ... "<br /><br />"Among the most serious accusations are charges that administrative chaos at Desert Trails has resulted in both a stampede of exiting teachers and staff; that uncredentialed instructors have taught in its classrooms; and that Desert Trails had an unwritten policy of dissuading parents of students with special learning needs from seeking special education. The teachers also allege that they had to endure a bullying regime in which, they say, they were continually screamed at, spied on, lied to and humiliated in front of parents and their peers by Tarver and her deputies. Capital & Main spoke with the teachers, four of whom agreed to go on the record for this story. ('The High Desert is a small place and Debbie Tarver has a long reach,' said one teacher who requested anonymity.)<br /><br />“ 'Not only was it dysfunctional and unprofessional,' says second grade teacher Renee Salazar, a five-year veteran of Los Angeles’ inner-city public schools, 'it was law-breakingly unprofessional.' ”<br /><br />Looks like they're not goint to make their 3-year deadline.Anonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16911854468188214107noreply@blogger.com