Response to today's "Dispatch" Editorial
To whom it may concern,
Your editorial on education is pathetic. It is fueled either by ignorance or your same-old upper-class agenda.
A lot of “terrible” teachers who once taught in the “worst” schools have moved on and now are “excellent” teachers teaching in the “best” schools.
W’s “Child Behinds” program - which you praise - is just a continuation of the long-standing “Proficiency Test” scheme – nothing new. And even BEFORE the state "proficiency" testing began, testing was used – it was used 57 years ago when I was in first grade. And those tests have always “produced a wealth of data that can help officials diagnose problems and prescribe solutions.”
As for following the lead of places where “it works” is concerned, “Best Practices” have been studied and pushed (even by evil teachers’ unions) long before George Bush eschewed alcohol and cocaine. Moreover, these practices weren’t sought out and selected on the basis of “hunches” or even by attending a members-and-guests luncheon at the Columbus Metropolitan Club to hear a Washington-based “expert.”
As for counting on university teacher-ed departments, the Ohio Board of Regents, and the Ohio Department of Education to suddenly produce super teachers: PLEASE!!! Who do you think has been leading the parade for the last 100 years?
So, there’s your ignorance – if that is what it is.
If you are actually just pushing the same old Country-Club Republican scheme to get poor, underprivileged kids performing like suburban kids but at urban wages – and to accomplish this on the cheap - I retract the ignorance charge.
As always, you avoid the real, expensive, and class-related causes in favor of scapegoating the schools, teachers, and their unions.
The editorial is pathetic. If you folks at the paper ACTUALLY give a damn about urban kids and REALLY want education to improve; you have offered nothing new – just the same old finger-pointing bromides and old “solutions” dressed up like young whores.
Whatever the truth may be, the editorial is still pathetic and reflects badly either on the writer’s intellect or his humanity..
- Tom Harker, Ukulele Man
Your editorial on education is pathetic. It is fueled either by ignorance or your same-old upper-class agenda.
A lot of “terrible” teachers who once taught in the “worst” schools have moved on and now are “excellent” teachers teaching in the “best” schools.
W’s “Child Behinds” program - which you praise - is just a continuation of the long-standing “Proficiency Test” scheme – nothing new. And even BEFORE the state "proficiency" testing began, testing was used – it was used 57 years ago when I was in first grade. And those tests have always “produced a wealth of data that can help officials diagnose problems and prescribe solutions.”
As for following the lead of places where “it works” is concerned, “Best Practices” have been studied and pushed (even by evil teachers’ unions) long before George Bush eschewed alcohol and cocaine. Moreover, these practices weren’t sought out and selected on the basis of “hunches” or even by attending a members-and-guests luncheon at the Columbus Metropolitan Club to hear a Washington-based “expert.”
As for counting on university teacher-ed departments, the Ohio Board of Regents, and the Ohio Department of Education to suddenly produce super teachers: PLEASE!!! Who do you think has been leading the parade for the last 100 years?
So, there’s your ignorance – if that is what it is.
If you are actually just pushing the same old Country-Club Republican scheme to get poor, underprivileged kids performing like suburban kids but at urban wages – and to accomplish this on the cheap - I retract the ignorance charge.
As always, you avoid the real, expensive, and class-related causes in favor of scapegoating the schools, teachers, and their unions.
The editorial is pathetic. If you folks at the paper ACTUALLY give a damn about urban kids and REALLY want education to improve; you have offered nothing new – just the same old finger-pointing bromides and old “solutions” dressed up like young whores.
Whatever the truth may be, the editorial is still pathetic and reflects badly either on the writer’s intellect or his humanity..
- Tom Harker, Ukulele Man
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