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Lisa Woods: Why Schools Don't Run Like Businesses

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Lisa Woods, who has taught for 25 years, explains clearly in this post why schools will never run like businesses. It originally appeared. In the Greensboro (N.C.) News-Record. She asks readers to imagine a job where one's compensation depends one's "job performance and value" depend on the following conditions: * You are meeting with 35 clients in a room that holds 20.
"* The air conditioning and/or heat may or may not be working; your roof leaks in three places,

"* Of the 35, 5 do not speak English, and no interpreters are provided.

"* Fifteen are there because they are forced by their "bosses" to be there but hate your product.

"* Eight do not have the funds to purchase your product.

"* Seven have no prior experience with your product and have no idea what it is or how to use it.

"* Two are removed for fighting over a chair.
Only two-thirds of your clients
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I began teaching in 1963,; Ba and BS in Education -Brooklyn College. I have the equivalent of 2 additional Master's, mainly in Literacy Studies and Graphic Design. I was the only seventh grade teacher of English from 1990 -1999 at East Side (more...)
 

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