Newark Public Schools get $100 million from Facebook creator on Oprah today — Page 2

Rhee's degree is in government, her background is in education. Your comparison would only be appropriate if you've served in the military for 15 years.

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Teacher educate thyself.

http://njcharters.org/faq/

here are some points that are in the movie and why they are myths

Also I know people who did Teach for America they lasted 3 years paid off their college loans and then went to law school...many of the Teach for America teachers don't last they see it as a way to pay off their student loans


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Updated On: 9/27/10 at 05:33 PM

See this is what I don't get - and this is from someone who thinks a quality public education is vital to America - instead of complaining about Charter Schools, why not make the public schools better - make teachers more accountable and make tenure a factor, but not the determination in whether a teacher stays or leaves?

If I had a kid right now, I would have to send them to either a charter or private school because at least in LA, many of the public schools are a mess. There is blame all around (not just the teachers), but it seems to me that the teachers union is far more interested in protecting the careers of its teachers as opposed to making sure they can actually do the job they are paid to perform.

If public schools were doing a good job, charter schools would not be so attractive. So, while pointing and yelling about how easy the charter schools have it, public school teachers need to look in the mirror and ask why are parents seeking out charter schools.

There are a host of problems why, including parents, administrator heavy districts, tenure, and (at least from my perspective) No Child Left Behind - which guides kids to be able to answer a test as opposed to developing critical reasoning skills.

And, for the record, my my was a teacher for many, many years. I know teaching can be a thankless job - but guess what, many many jobs are thankless for a good part of the day or year. When everyone is being asked to work more for less, pay more for health care, and deal with added job stress on a daily basis.

Having that kind of background and claiming to be an experienced educator is NOT the same as someone who taught twenty years in a classroom and has a degree in the education field.

Three years with Teach for America and then 13 years in administration for a teacher recruitment and training non-profit that has contracts with dozens of major school systems across the country is a background the educational system. Probably a much more diverse and experienced background than someone who's spent decades in a 6th grade English class reading Tuck Everlasting 30 times.

In other words, all our fears about charter schools not really being held to the same level of accountability as public schools, yet receiving tax money, are true.

What level of accountability are public schools held to if school systems like Newark, DC and Detroit (to name only a few of the countless) were allowed to reach their current states? If tax payer dollars are going to fund the traditional public education system, there needs to be an administrator with more than just classroom experience to hold the education system accountable. Suggesting someone needs 20 years of classroom experience just to be able to decide bad teachers with failing students need to be fired just seems like more of the promote from within, last hired first fired, same old policy that protects teachers at the expense of the students, and has run school systems into the ground all over the country. If that's the way you want NJ public schools to be run, fine, but I think the rest of the country would prefer an increase in education standards rather than a decline.

If public schools were doing a good job, charter schools would not be so attractive. So, while pointing and yelling about how easy the charter schools have it, public school teachers need to look in the mirror and ask why are parents seeking out charter schools.

Exactly. Charter schools came about because public schools hadn't been doing their jobs for a long time.

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Updated On: 9/27/10 at 07:49 PM

Jason, stop while you are behind.

My kids score exceptionally well, thank you very much. Last year 94% of my kids passed the standardized tests - only ones that didn't were inclusion kids with special circumstances. I happen to be fortunate. There are far too many places where parents aren't involved or don't care at all and that makes a huge difference.

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Why are you assuming I'm white?

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You used to have an avatar picture of yourself and Caitie at Disney World. Besides, adamgreer didn't assume you were white, he assumed your students were white.

Why don't you just come out and say what's really on your mind? Those "too many places" that you refer to are urban, lower-income areas, where the minorities live. Only the white parents in your suburban middle class district "care", right?

Exactly. Kids with uninvolved parents deserve an equal education to the kids whose parents bought Baby Einstein. That's the whole point of public education. If the education system isn't going to regulate itself to provide that, then someone needs to step in to do it for them.

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He's not the one with the story about the deer, is he?

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So you mean Angry Teacher is really Angry Deer with a different issue?

Oh, for crap's sake.

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Yep, he's the murderer who hit the deer that dared to get in his way. Charter schools are the new deer.