Hey, I am a Brooklyn bred gal, and as my readers know" I persevered! I hired a real attorney, and for $25,000 he filed a lawsuit ( pointing out that even if-- in an insane moment I had cursed at a student in front of 30 kid s-- it was not, under the law--'corporal punishment!'
Teachers cannot get justice in the courts. It bankrupts them!
There is more, much more, but this is not about me; I only touch on my story because along with Lorna Stremcha's tale of abuse, it demonstrates the extremes, how far they CAN go to silence our voices! Read the stories of teachers at the NAPTA site, Senator, and you will glimpse that first decade before Bush invented VAM"and WHAM, so that now teachers are evaluated out the door in 3 to 5 years, saving between $40 K and $65K by not vesting them in benefits.
And along came a spider called Duncan who sold this narrative of teaching, not learning. and using these bogus tests to catch the teachers in the web.
Test scores are collected and then marketed by greatschools.org. This non-profit is a sophisticated and well-funded system for gathering test scores and other information about students and parents, then selling that information. The website literally sells ads and licenses for access to test scores and other data on schools--public, private, and charter--with expansions planned for pre-school and daycare-centers.
The PROCESS of civil rights abuse, is THE SCANDAL OF THE CENTURY.
You must address the need for teachers to be able to participate in the conversation about learning in their own practice!
Without the law of the land to protect them, teachers were harassed, humiliated and vilified. With their voices silenced, Bush could foist NCLB & VAM. and set up a testing program which measured nothing a teacher can use. T he real Performance Standards state that genuine evaluation and authentic assessments (tests) are for the teacher's usein planning to meet the needs of each emergent learner. I know this because my work met every one of the standards principles in a unique manner, according to the researchers at the LRDC, and I never gave a test! The test was in their ability to write!
To help your campaign to draw an insight, go to my series here, and see the links to the Ravitch posts on the privatization movement. Or go to her site and put in "the legislatures" which are defunding public education, and then labeling schools as ' failing,' so they hand over the education of our future votes to private charters which have no oversight.
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