Comments on: Newsweek Wants Accountability for Teachers, Not Editors http://www.fair.org/blog/2010/03/09/newsweek-wants-accountability-for-teachers-not-editors/ The national media watch group Fri, 10 Feb 2012 09:31:47 -0600 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.2 hourly 1 By: Sue http://www.fair.org/blog/2010/03/09/newsweek-wants-accountability-for-teachers-not-editors/comment-page-1/#comment-57934 Sue Mon, 22 Nov 2010 02:48:20 +0000 http://www.fair.org/blog/?p=13827#comment-57934 No Newsweek subscription for us. Instead I will be reading "When Teachers Talk" by Rosalyn Schnall and "White Chalk Crime" by Karen Horwitz to hear the true stories about why schools fail. I worked an average of 72 hours a week and ended up being cut due to budgets after over 25 years of teaching. I miss my job and my family of four misses my income. Who is going to want to become a teacher with the lack of respect shown to them, all too often hostile work environments, lack of pay, and lack of job security? My teenagers have stated they would never consider that career. Our society is going backwards. No Newsweek subscription for us. Instead I will be reading "When Teachers Talk" by Rosalyn Schnall and "White Chalk Crime" by Karen Horwitz to hear the true stories about why schools fail.

I worked an average of 72 hours a week and ended up being cut due to budgets after over 25 years of teaching. I miss my job and my family of four misses my income. Who is going to want to become a teacher with the lack of respect shown to them, all too often hostile work environments, lack of pay, and lack of job security? My teenagers have stated they would never consider that career.

Our society is going backwards.

]]> By: league of women voters http://www.fair.org/blog/2010/03/09/newsweek-wants-accountability-for-teachers-not-editors/comment-page-1/#comment-51840 league of women voters Wed, 03 Nov 2010 03:33:22 +0000 http://www.fair.org/blog/?p=13827#comment-51840 Newsweak should be ashamed of their multipage editorial masquerading as journalism. This article was a travesty. How can serious, educated journalists state that KIPP does not cherry-pick, but requires a contract for admission requiring parental involvement? How can the issues of gentrification and demographic changes that occurred post-Katrina be ignored in explaining improved performance in New Orleans public schools? Finally, how does this highly micromanaged approach they advocate, geared toward rote learning for standardized tests, prepare kids for univeristy-level education - where intellectual curiousity and independent study skills are essential for success? Newsweak should be ashamed of their multipage editorial masquerading as journalism. This article was a travesty. How can serious, educated journalists state that KIPP does not cherry-pick, but requires a contract for admission requiring parental involvement? How can the issues of gentrification and demographic changes that occurred post-Katrina be ignored in explaining improved performance in New Orleans public schools? Finally, how does this highly micromanaged approach they advocate, geared toward rote learning for standardized tests, prepare kids for univeristy-level education – where intellectual curiousity and independent study skills are essential for success?

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]]> By: Marilyn http://www.fair.org/blog/2010/03/09/newsweek-wants-accountability-for-teachers-not-editors/comment-page-1/#comment-13769 Marilyn Sun, 14 Mar 2010 14:24:01 +0000 http://www.fair.org/blog/?p=13827#comment-13769 As a public school teacher who works smart and professional with my students I am offended by those who attack the teacher and public school system. Why doesn't Evans go get a job as a public school teacher? In an average public school. My money says he wouldn't last 6 months. If it "takes a village" to support, nurture, educate a child doesn't it "take a villiage" to fail a child? Accountability? What about Student MOTIVATION? The bottom line is that right wingers would love to shut down all public schools and privatize them. The TEA Party people would love to do away with taxes supporting public schools. WAKE UP AMERICA! A chid is not a business by product produced on a manufacturing line, or shuffling papers around and calling it "profit." As a public school teacher who works smart and professional with my students I am offended by those who attack the teacher and public school system. Why doesn't Evans go get a job as a public school teacher? In an average public school. My money says he wouldn't last 6 months. If it "takes a village" to support, nurture, educate a child doesn't it "take a villiage" to fail a child? Accountability? What about Student MOTIVATION? The bottom line is that right wingers would love to shut down all public schools and privatize them. The TEA Party people would love to do away with taxes supporting public schools.
WAKE UP AMERICA! A chid is not a business by product produced on a manufacturing line, or shuffling papers around and calling it "profit."

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