At Ed Notes I put up a bunch of links to a variety of postings on Rhee. I think it provides a broader view than offered here at Gotham:
Role Rheeversal
I haven’t seen Waiting for Superman yet because I don’t want to give them my 9 bucks (senior citizen, ya know).
If you read my post yesterday (O Canada, So Inglorious and Untrue), it seems the movie is not doing as well as expected. I expect Broad/Gates/Murdoch to buy air time on every TV station in the world to show the movie in an endless loop for weeks at a time. Or have 10 billion dvds made and give them away in cereal boxes. Or have one mailed to every person in the world – and even to some of those new planets they are discovering. You wouldn’t want any sign of life to miss the message that tenure has to end for anyone to learn anything in school.
If you find grammar or speling mistakes, that must be my problem – I was taught by tenured teachers.
Rhee-ites are whistling in the dark … the new DC chancellor will have to build bridges with the school community, parents and teachers, as well as the Congressional Black Caucus.
You will see far more collaborative approaches and far more research-based rather than political agenda driven policies.
Michelle will go the Sarah Palin route … talk shows, speaker fees, the celeb of the moment. … and mayors around the nation are a little less likely to stumble toward mayoral control … maybe that school board has a role, a buffer between the electeds and the electorate.
Vote NO
Regarding the Daily News article about the schools closings, and the impact on other Queens highs schools. It is maybe the most tragic story of the school closure fiasco. That is the horrible impact school closings are having on some of Queens, and NYC’s best large comprehensive high schools. Forest Hills, Bayside, Francis Lewis, and Cardozo are taking the brunt from the overflow of students due to the closure, and reorganization of so many Queens high schools in recent years.
J. Winthrop
To: Michael Mulgrew
From: Dues Paying Members
re: Teacher Support
For we must consider that we shall be as a city upon a hill. The eyes of all people are upon us. So that if we shall deal falsely with our God in this work we have undertaken, and so cause Him to withdraw His present help from us, we shall be made a story and a by-word through the world.
“It is true that differing start dates for age upon kindergarten enrollment make comparisons btw traditional public schools and charters unfair. Frankly, however, the system should give public schools more leeway in this area.”
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