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That makes absolutely no sense. If all cops are interchangeable, how do you decide who to promote? Is there a lottery?

Bloomberg’s statement doesn’t pass the laugh test.

We know that not all detectives have the same close rate on their investigations nor do all police officers all have the same number of civilian complaints filed against them. The body mass index of police officers also seems like another piece of objective data that might be relevant to their job performance.

There is certainly objective data about police officers that proves they are not all the same. Doesn’t the public have a right to that data, the same way they have a right to teacher’s ratings?

The 2009 New Teacher Project report is a political document, not an educational one. It’s underlying purpose was to expand management control of the profession through the use of new evaluation procedures, and under the guise of serving students (remember: it’s Children First. Always. Even when you’re closing their schools and casting them adrift, or giving their schools over to politically-connected private entities). 

Much of the report is is premised on the fallacy that administrators and the system could not promote perceived high-achieving teachers. Nonsense: there were always staff development or mentor jobs, or jobs with the Districts that those teachers could be placed in. That many of those jobs had, shall we say, a political dimension does not mean they didn’t exist. And anyway, wasn’t the traditional path for those teachers to become APs and Principals, at least until the deformers turned the job of Principal into that of Chief School Compliance Officer, making it easier to put in place Leadership Academy grads with little classroom experience?Despite what TNTP and the Mayor would have us believe, teachers are still looked upon as widgets by the DOE. Or rather, under current management-speak, we are “assets” or “‘human capital” (or factors of production, to be less euphemistic, with the kids as the product), to be deployed, ultimately without the interference of a pesky union. Assets and capital are in the end fungible or as the mayor said, interchangeable. If he didn’t think that, he’d try do something about the abysmal teacher retention rate in the system (which he secretly loves and wants to increase, thus reduced rate of granting tenure).In this case, the mayor is just temporarily masking his contempt for teachers (redirecting it to police officers and firefighters instead) as a  spin tactic in response to the TDRs blowing up in the deformers faces.  

Bloomberg is moronic. Should the public believe that all cops are just like the one that was arrested yesterday for drunk driving or Moreno and Matta?