I am firing Newsweek.

[Smarmie Doofus]

By letting my subscription run out. Sub-par , skewed journalism. Esp. on the subject of schools. Esp. as evidenced by this:



http://www.google.com/imgres?imgurl=&imgrefurl=http://lessonslearnedteacher.blogspot.com/2010/09/lesson-on-bad-teachers-teacher-tenure.html&usg=__TjCx8GfQhpQEEjtrFivOEDp8T1E=&h=503&w=375&sz=62&hl=en=0&zoom=1&tbnid=-B7Cs7Z5SzXG4M:&tbnh=149&tbnw=111&ei=hK2XTanoBoi3twfv7Pz-Cw&prev=/images%3Fq%3DNewsweek%2B%2522bad%2Bteachers%2522%26hl%3Den%26biw%3D1440%26bih%3D621%26gbv%3D2%26tbs%3Disch:1&itbs=1&iact=hc&vpx=119&vpy=67&dur=20980&hovh=260&hovw=194&tx=122&ty=99&oei=hK2XTanoBoi3twfv7Pz-Cw&page=1&ndsp=22&ved=1t:429,r:0,s:0

So the question is: how should I let them know? Is the following too childish? Too vindictive? Just about right? Let me know.

We must stamp-out bad journalism. We must stamp-out bad journalism. We must stamp-out bad journalism. We must stamp out bad journalism.

We must stamp-out bad journalism. We must stamp-out bad journalism. We must stamp-out bad journalism. We must stamp out bad journalism.

We must stamp-out bad journalism. We must stamp-out bad journalism. We must stamp-out bad journalism. We must stamp out bad journalism.

We must stamp-out bad journalism. We must stamp-out bad journalism. We must stamp-out bad journalism. We must stamp out bad journalism.

We must stamp-out bad journalism. We must stamp-out bad journalism. We must stamp-out bad journalism. We must stamp out bad journalism.

We must stamp-out bad journalism. We must stamp-out bad journalism. We must stamp-out bad journalism. We must stamp out bad journalism.

We must stamp-out bad journalism. We must stamp-out bad journalism. We must stamp-out bad journalism. We must stamp out bad journalism.

We must stamp-out bad journalism. We must stamp-out bad journalism. We must stamp-out bad journalism. We must stamp out bad journalism.

[Skidmore]

1. Didn't Tina Brown take over Newsweek, after scoring and

Ariana type deal?

[Smarmie Doofus]

9. Apparently so:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tina_Brown

I'm not sure what it means, though.

[inademv]

2. I cba to comb through the article for what you find objectionable

Can you provide some highlights of what you disliked?

[Smarmie Doofus]

5. Wow. It's been a while. It was standard , boiler-plate.....

... corporate $$$ school reform propaganda. Reported uncritically and one-sidedly. Truckloads of simplistic anti-teacher, anti-union cliches. Unbalanced and uninformed by analysis from the other side.

If you've seen the Riefenstahlian Waiting for Superman, you've pretty much read the Newsweek article.


All of which I'm used to: the $chool "reform" craze dominates the entirety of corporate media. But the cover was the proverbial straw that gave my camel a herniated disc.

[inademv]

6. Well the page that your OP linked to...

was generally pro-union and pro teachers benefits. I have not really heard a reasonable rebuttal to most of the ideas in Waiting for Superman to be quite honest and as a student myself, to the idea of tenure reform/review hearing streamlining I think that they are much needed in order to remove educators that genuinely are dead weight in the system and serve more as a detriment to their students learning and a drain on the system than an actual asset.

[Smarmie Doofus]

7. Really? Do you read/watch anything besides commercial media?

>>>I have not really heard a reasonable rebuttal to most of the ideas in Waiting for Superman to be quite honest and as a student myself, to the idea of tenure reform/review hearing streamlining I think that they are much needed in order to remove educators that genuinely are dead weight in the system and serve more as a detriment to their students learning and a drain on the system than an actual asset.>>>

Read former deputy US Sec.of Ed. Ravitch's review of Superman:

http://www.nybooks.com/articles/archives/2010/nov/11/myth-charter-schools/



Be careful what you wish for. You might get it. Seniority and tenure just didn't "happen". They evolved as solutions to what preceded them: nepotism, favoritism , cronyism, patronage and jobs for $$.

It's relatively easy to complain about individual teachers you may dislike. You should consider the possibility that you might have a lot more to complain about were it not for teacher tenure and seniority protections.

[inademv]

8. My college board has decided

to completely eliminate tenure. This is at a public school where retaining good teachers is already a massively uphill battle, so much so that a couple of the better professors I've had have expressed their intentions to seek employment elsewhere.

I'm not sure how you interpreted my previous post so let me be perfectly clear:
There are pros and cons to the tenure benefit, the main con of it is not with the tenure benefit itself but with the process of review that is required for teacher dismissal past their tenure. The genesis and development of the tenure system doesn't concern me and frankly it is completely irrelevant to the discussion on fixing the problems with it.

For the topic of the movies, I don't believe I endorsed them in any way but I also believe that there were some good suggestions and identification of specific problems with our public education system and there definitely are some problems.

[proud2BlibKansan]

3. Works for me

:thumbsup:

[MineralMan]

4. Thanks for letting us know. Really.

[Quantess]

10. I call them Snoozeweek.

They take a potentially interesting subject matter or event, and make it dreadfully dull.

[Smarmie Doofus]

12. That's what I always say about Charlie Rose:

>>>They take a potentially interesting subject matter or event, and make it dreadfully dull.>>>>>>

Adding them both to "my list of things I'll never understand; like collecting shrunken Indian heads."

[roody]

11. They never put Nancy Pelosi, Speaker,

on the cover. Neither did Time.

[McCamy Taylor]

13. Newsweek exists to promote nuclear power for its parent, GE.

If you think people are talking too much about the nukes in Japan, you should be reading Newsweek.