This space explores issues in public education policy, and it advocates for a commitment to and a re-examination of the democratic purposes of schools. If there is some urgency in the message, it is due to the current reform efforts that are based on a radical re-invention of education, now spearheaded by a psychometric blitzkrieg of "metastasizing testing" aimed at dismantling a public education system that took almost 200 years to build. JH August, 2005
This is one of the things the far right loves about the charter-voucher school push -- the ability to silence dissent, particularly from teachers.
ReplyDeleteIf this young woman was in a union, she'd still have her job, and those students wouldn't be deprived of her teaching.