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Spagettio (17 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Jul-25-10 03:04 PM Original message |
Washington Post editorial congratulates Rhee on teacher firings |
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LWolf (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Jul-25-10 03:10 PM Response to Original message |
1. Any system that |
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Recursion (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Jul-25-10 05:12 PM Response to Reply #1 |
19. This is also a system in which the mayors/city council had a history... |
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LWolf (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Jul-25-10 06:20 PM Response to Reply #19 |
20. I have a couple of questions about that. |
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Recursion (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Jul-25-10 06:34 PM Response to Reply #20 |
21. A brief lesson on the insanity that is the local DC government |
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LWolf (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Jul-25-10 06:48 PM Response to Reply #21 |
25. That's a clusterfuck of unusual proportions. |
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Recursion (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Jul-25-10 07:04 PM Response to Reply #25 |
26. Hey, I said it's DC, didn't I? |
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proud2BlibKansan (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Jul-25-10 07:17 PM Response to Reply #21 |
28. You are actually comparing an owner of a baseball team to a school chancellor |
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Recursion (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Jul-26-10 11:07 AM Response to Reply #28 |
39. Both run big-budget organizations with powerful unions |
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Dinger (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Jul-26-10 09:01 AM Response to Reply #20 |
37. "How does the mayor or city council "make" an elected school board do anything?" |
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Recursion (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Jul-26-10 10:58 AM Response to Reply #37 |
38. Back when DC had an elected school board, that was a good point |
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dsc (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Jul-25-10 03:17 PM Response to Original message |
2. I think they should be judged the very same way |
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Spagettio (17 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Jul-25-10 03:19 PM Response to Reply #2 |
3. Lol great idea |
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Catshrink (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Jul-25-10 03:27 PM Response to Reply #3 |
5. Right on... |
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YvonneCa (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Jul-25-10 03:49 PM Response to Reply #2 |
8. Love it! And it's quite... |
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Starry Messenger (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Jul-25-10 03:49 PM Response to Reply #2 |
9. !!! |
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Recursion (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Jul-25-10 06:38 PM Response to Reply #2 |
22. OK, what's the difference in Washington Post editors and teachers? |
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anigbrowl (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Jul-25-10 07:45 PM Response to Reply #22 |
30. Obviously the WaPo ahould fire underperforming readers |
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Recursion (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Jul-25-10 08:35 PM Response to Reply #30 |
31. Well, charter schools seem to be precisely the "fire bad students" idea, no? NT |
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anigbrowl (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Jul-25-10 08:52 PM Response to Reply #31 |
33. i think it's a bit more complex than that. |
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dsc (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Jul-25-10 08:40 PM Response to Reply #22 |
32. actually the Washington post disagrees with you as to what their job is |
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DrDan (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Jul-25-10 03:26 PM Response to Original message |
4. I wonder how many parents were fired. |
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Recursion (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Jul-25-10 04:31 PM Response to Reply #4 |
15. In DC? Quite a few |
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DrDan (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Jul-25-10 04:38 PM Response to Reply #15 |
16. my point was posted obscurely . . . teachers are being fired based on student results |
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Recursion (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Jul-25-10 04:43 PM Response to Reply #16 |
18. Yes, I was making a tangential post |
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proud2BlibKansan (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Jul-25-10 06:44 PM Response to Reply #18 |
24. "teachers who done stuff like hit students" |
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Recursion (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Jul-25-10 07:05 PM Response to Reply #24 |
27. "Teachers who have done stuff" |
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proud2BlibKansan (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Jul-25-10 07:19 PM Response to Reply #27 |
29. No she got in trouble because she claimed they had sexually molested students |
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Recursion (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Jul-26-10 08:56 AM Response to Reply #29 |
35. She claimed both physical and sexual abuse |
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Recursion (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Jul-25-10 03:47 PM Response to Original message |
6. Pretty much every chancellor has tried to fire these same teachers for 20 years |
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Catshrink (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Jul-25-10 03:49 PM Response to Reply #6 |
7. Yeah, they should just fire all of them |
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Recursion (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Jul-25-10 03:54 PM Response to Reply #7 |
10. Wow! What a condescending way to completely ignore what I said! |
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Catshrink (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Jul-25-10 03:56 PM Response to Reply #10 |
11. And what an ignorant response |
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Recursion (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Jul-25-10 03:59 PM Response to Reply #11 |
12. Aaaarggghhh! It's as ignorant as what you said, which was the point |
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Recursion (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Jul-25-10 04:03 PM Response to Reply #11 |
13. Fine, let me close the simple gap you seem to be missing |
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Arkana (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Jul-25-10 04:26 PM Response to Original message |
14. Washington? That's where the White House is! |
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ibegurpard (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Jul-25-10 04:41 PM Response to Original message |
17. Charter schools to the rescue! |
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Recursion (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Jul-25-10 06:41 PM Response to Reply #17 |
23. Rhee has stared down the pro-charter faction pretty well |
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Recursion (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Jul-26-10 08:48 AM Response to Original message |
34. A caller to Kojo on Friday said it best |
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AlabamaLibrul (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Jul-26-10 08:58 AM Response to Original message |
36. IMPACT on teachers for having to follow score-based "evaluation" (eom) |
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