The same controversy surrounding Tennessee’s equivalent of SB51, has at least that state’s Democrats fighting for those educating our children . Not like up here where Dave Sokola and Erica Jenner joined forces and sold the teaching profession out for a couple of pieces of silver.
Think for a second.
If your boss gave you a pop quiz at work, how well do you think you’d do? … Guesses?
The correct answer is: you would do only as well as he wanted you to do. If he wanted you do do well, he’d quiz you on things you do every day enabling you to pass with high marks. If he wants you doing poorly, he fills the test up irrelevant questions, that you haven’t thought about in decades (because they are irrelevant); at work you are constantly being bombarded with things that truly do matter..
So we are talking about taking a teacher’s license away because her students did poorly on a standardized test, not by how good or not good the teacher is!
Does the teacher make the test? Of course not: the test is made many states away by people who have never stepped foot in a classroom and get paid 6 digit salaries. The tests are untried at the time of taking. They are not last year’s test remade. No one knows how relevant or non relevant these tests are.
Does the teacher get to know the material on the test so she can teach her students the relevant data? No, that would be cheating. The teacher has to guess before hand what will or will not be covered, and then has to teach her best guess. What if those think tank “specialists” have different philosophies? Bad scores.
Does the teacher get to interpret the test, to explain the questions in a way the child might better understand? No, that is considered leading the child. So if a child can’t understand the question, because they haven’t a Masters or Doctorate degree in education, they fail.
Does the teacher have any control over the test taking environment? No, if every one stays up late to watch Breaking Bad, and then texts till two in the morning about what happened on the show, and what might happen on next week’s episode.,.. they will do poorly. To them its some dumb test that doesn’t matter anyway. They’ll still get promoted… 456 + 789… ah, my head hearts… let me guess… umm “{c}”
Imagine lining up all of Delawares School Board and Rodel Foundation officers around the Governor, as he signs SB 51, and taking one photo, then firing all those who blinked, grimace, moved, or otherwise “failed” to properly enhance the photo…..
As their cleaning out their office, you can here Hefferman mutter… “they didn’t even count down. They just took the picture. If they’d counted down, I could have been ready.”
And speaking of FAILURES. OH! MY! GOODNESS!!! Rodel’s Vision 2015 has failed to meet its objectives (GOALS) it set for itself back in 2006. They have had 7 of the 9 years they gave themselves to make it happen. Instead of firing itself, it announces its name is now Rodel 2020…. But a teacher who’s students blink during 3 hours one day from watching Breaking Bad the night before? YOU’RE A LOUSY TEACHER! WHAT A FAILURE YOU ARE! GET OUT OF OUR SCHOOL! EVEN BETTER! GET YOU OUT OF OUR ENTIRE PROFESSION!
That is why this is so stupid. SB51 is so stupid. Everyone who voted for it, without reading it, is so stupid. Every blog except those who raised awareness against it, is so stupid. Mr. Sweeney, is so stupid….
I won’t belabor the point anymore. But firing a teacher for a photo moment, is ridiculous. Taking away their license for the same should in a proper universe, damn you to an eternity in Hell.
If you yourself personally choose to go to Hell, you will find the following assorted people there to keep you company.
Blevins, Hocker, Peterson,
Bonini, Lavelle, Pettyjohn,
Bushweller, Lawson, Poore,
Cloutier, Lopez, Simpson,
Ennis, Marshall, Sokola,
Hall-Long, McBride, Townsend,
Henry, McDowell, Venables,
Atkins, J. Johnson, Ramone,
Barbieri, Q. Johnson, Scott,
Bennett, Kenton, B. Short,
Blakey, M. Smith, D. Short,
Bolden, Longhurst, Smyk,
Brady, Miro, Spiegelman,
Briggs-King, Mitchell, Viola,
Carson, Mulrooney, Walker,
Dukes, D.E. Williams, Keeley,
Gray, Outten, K. Williams,
Heffernan, Paradee, Wilson,
Hudson, Peterman, Schwartzkopf,
Jaques Sweeney, Markell, Murphy, Jenner.
Just looking over that list, … I would bet that if this list ever got public, and people could see the likes of the company they’d be spending their eternity with, .. our churches would be overflowing this weekend!…
By the way, can anyone out there possibly tell me when was the last time a doctor lost his license for one case of malpractice judgment decided in court against him? Or one Secretary of Education fired for in his first year statewide test results, in what even the friendly News Journal headline lambasted as: “Disappointing Results”?
GO TO CHURCH!
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