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YvonneCa

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Mon Dec-08-08 12:22 PM
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7. Getting it right on education is critical. A choice that alienates the very people...

...who will implement the policy (teachers) frightens me. As a teacher, I believe in public education and public education reform. I DO NOT believe in NCLB...because it is punitive and divisive.

The choice of Klein or Michelle Rhee is also a divisive 'attack the teachers' act. It would send a message to teachers that they are the problem...which is untrue. The problems are multiple, and many-faceted. It is time (IMHO) to create a solution that will permit educators of all stripes (teachers, principals, curriculum experts, and administrators) to come together collaboratively to fix our public schools.

The 'blame game' has to stop.

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