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If you listen to those running
for office and their supporters, public education just can’t get anything
right. Which leads me to some interesting observations. Observations that may
be biased by the fact that my teaching and school leadership experience was in
inner-city schools in Houston, Texas.
Interesting Observation #1: Over-testing and the damage to student
self-esteem due to test difficulty were never issues until affluent and
suburban schools were no longer automatically “successful.” When the tests were kicking my students
and my teachers in the teeth, we were either, “lazy or needed to work harder
and care more.”
Interesting Observation #2: The
same politicians who are now concerned with the negative effects of
accountability... Also are the same politicians concerned with failing
schools... Who also espouse that the solution to “failing” schools is to create
financial subsidies for affluent and suburban families to send their children
to segregated schools that have not and are not subject to accountability and
state testing.
Interesting Observation #3: 90%
of public educators must like the system the way it is and the way it is
going. Because they keep going to
the polls and voting for the people that are racing to see who can defund and
dismantle public schools the quickest.
But then again, as I wrote at
the beginning of this post, maybe I’m just biased and need to work harder and
care more.
Think. Work. Achieve.
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