| Brian Ford, teacher and author, wrote this letter to the editor of TIME magazine, in response to the demeaning cover about teachers as "Rotten Apples" who cannot be fired. The cover said that "tech millionaires" had figured out how to deal with those teachers. Ford writes: " It is concentrated poverty, not teacher quality that plagues our system -- or, more accurately, those parts of the system which serve the poorest quarter of our population. Dismantle the public system to serve the students, which is done in the strangest way -- teacher autonomy declines and long term professionals are pushed out not because they are 'bad,' but because they have higher salaries. The problem is that far too many advocates of this position are trying to make room in the budget for their own payments; ranging from Rupert Murdoch to purveyors of virtual education to TFA to Pearson to the Gates-funded. |
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