| Lily Eckerson Garcia says a friend wrote: "I'm just so tired of the new national pastime -- Beat up a Teacher." She had seen the nasty cover of Time with a court gavel about to smash an apple (a good one by the way). She saw the title and knew it was a lie: It's nearly impossible to fire a bad teacher. But what pushed her over the edge was the subheading: A group of Silicon Valley investors wants to change that. The irony drips. The Wolves of Wall Street woke up one day and decided that all the problems with American education could be solved by"firing teachers. Seriously? My dear friend could not even muster outrage at Time -- next up to bat in a long line of cheap swings at teachers.Time could have written about any number of ways to improve our schools--restoring school funding, actually ensuring equity, and ending the insane and costly No Child Left Behind testing regime,...but |
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