April 30, 2007
FloShap bitchslaps teachers
Oh, Florence... WTF are you thinking? Hal at Half Empty has the story on FloShap's bill to hold teachers accountable in a way that will guarantee
1) That teachers will be hard to come by
2) Teachers will refuse to take on difficult tasks
3) Kids will be the ones who get hurt
That last point is the most interesting...
No teacher will want to teach low ability students. Teaching low ability students will spell a death sentence for a teacher. I personally know teachers who request nothing but students with low learning ability because they feel they are most effective with these kids. Effective enough to get them to pass TAKS? Not always. There are other things to teach these kids – things that they can use.Imagine teaching a class full of students with sub-100 IQs, dyslexia, Turret’s, Limited English Proficiency, and out and out sociopaths, all of this mixed in with “G/T Gangstas” who are too busy writing computer programs to do their chemistry homework. It’s a zoo.
And it’s a zoo that no one will want to teach anymore if it means that they will be fired in 3 years.
Damn, Flo. You just can't stop hating on public schools, can you? What are you, challenging Parent PAC to take your ass out?
Posted by mcblogger at April 30, 2007 03:07 PM
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