The Real Strategy Behind No Child Left Behind/Race to the Top School Closures

[Hannah Bell]

From a comment at Gotham Schools on the announcement that 21 schools in NYC have been added to the "turnaround" list:


As other posters, especially teachers, have said over the past few months, many of these students arrive at their middle or high schools with poor reading and writing skills. The DOE does little to help them in the early grades, and next to nothing in later grades. So how on earth are they supposed to be able to handle the work at those grade levels?

And what good will it do to just shuffle them around to other schools, except get those schools shut down?

Of course, every time the DOE shuts down a school, it shakes up the status of the unionized teachers in those schools, so maybe that’s the real objective, and the struggling kids are the means to bring that about.

Except now we have the DOE shutting down its own new schools already, rather than helping the kids, so go figure on that one.

Go figure indeed.

It really is all about just blowing things up, isn't it?

And if Rahm Emanuel gets elected mayor in Chicago, he plans to blow up most of the Chicago Public School System.

http://perdidostreetschool.blogspot.com/2010/12/real-strategy-behind-school-closures.html

[leftstreet]

1. K&R

[erodriguez]

3. Wokka Wokka Wokka

[Hannah Bell]

2. k

[amborin]

4. perpetual churning keeps profits up in real estate, and now educ

[Reader Rabbit]

5. Educational "reform" is Sneetch-driven.

District administrators run their districts from the star-on machine to the star-off machine and back, striving to appear better than other districts/Sneetches. Meanwhile, the "fix-it-up chappie"—Gates, Broad, reformer-du-jour—makes off with all the money, laughing at the stupid, materialistic Sneetches all the while.