Reply #34: A caller to Kojo on Friday said it best

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I just caught the podcast. What he said was:

If the teachers don't like the evaluation system, they should develop an evaluation system of their own. This isn't an example of a bad evaluation system replacing a good one, this is an evaluation system being put in where there is none at all. The problem is teachers feel like they are entitled to their job no matter what their performance is. That might work at the DMV, but we can't keep subjecting our children to it.

(Tom Sherwood then said "they're not blowing up a system that people have complained about for six months, they're blowing up a system that people have complained about for 50 years".)

The next guest then pointed out the problems with DC's teacher certification system and how it doesn't actually certify anything about anyone.

EDIT:

OUCH! Kojo basically put it full force to Nathan Saunders (VP of the DC teacher's union):

"In that entire response you talked about the importance of the teachers for the stability of the African-American community and the need for adults to keep jobs, but you did not once mention the education of the students."

That's what is pissing pro-Rhee people off.