Stop RttT Facebook Group. Talk of a 1 MillionTeacher March on Washington.

[Orlandodem]

Join the Facebook group to stay informed about Duncan and RttT. It's growing fairly quickly. Spread the word to help stop scapegoating teachers.

http://www.facebook.com/#!/pages/Stop-Race-to-the-Top/118371311521182?ref=ts

[Recursion]

1. Race to the Top sounded like a not-so-bad idea to me

What am I missing that makes it bad?

[tonysam]

2. Read the dozens of posts about it

It's federal blackmail money designed to undercut unions and teacher protections.

[proud2BlibKansan]

3. Why should kids have to compete for resources?

The whole premise bothers me. We should FUND OUR SCHOOLS and do so equitably instead of making states compete.

It's also built on the assumption that making educators compete will automatically improve education. Oh how I wish it was that simple! :)

[mbperrin]

4. Yes, education is a cooperative exercise, not a competition.

RttT socializes the idea that some folks "belong" on the bottom, and it's their fault, because they lost a race, fair and square!

Creation of a formal peasant class and rationing resources to a few is not why I got into education, and it's not what created the highest standard of living in the world.

[Catshrink]

5. The business model is not appropriate for education

but that's what the billionaires driving this bus know so that's what they're trying to shove down our throats. Arne and Obama have bought into that. So... let me say it again.... Arne is not an educator. Bill Gates is not an educator. Obama is not an educator. None of them ever attended public schools. Educators should be setting education policy, not basketball jocks and billionaires. I feel like a broken record on this - maybe one day they'll hear it. Right now, the last person Obama or Arne want to hear from is a classroom teacher - we're the expendables in this grand scheme.

[adnelson60087]

7. We're expendable until 2012 anyway....

then suddenly, they will love us again for a few weeks in October.

[Recursion]

6. It was more cooperative than NCLB, at least as I saw it

It required buy-in from all stakeholders, etc. I'm not happy we have to make such hard decisions allocating education money, but we do. Kids shouldn't have to compete for resources, but until we actually tax ourselves at a sane rate, administrators do have to compete for resources one way or another.

[sosmtm2010]

8. SOS Million Teacher March

There WILL be a Million Teacher March in Washington D.C. July 30th at 10:00 AM. We are diligently working to make this a success and need all the help we can get. Please go to https://sites.google.com/site/sosmtm/ to find out more!