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Originally Posted by kerry
That is absolutely true. The administrators at my wife's school have no problem at all getting rid of teachers who oppose the administrator's inane policies but don't have the will to jump through the hoops necessary to get rid of bad teachers.
At my wife's school they just instituted a new yearly evaluation. The first half of the classroom evaluation portion was released recently. It is 28 pages long, filled with small print questions and will require 3 full days of orientation for all district teachers and administrators in order to understand what the form means. All of this because of the myth which pervades our culture that uniform educational results can be achieved with equal effort across all socio-economic classes and if it does not happen, the cause is bad teaching.
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Isn't this situation exactly what one would expect from the sort of top-down administration we now have? Some administrators of federal programs in DC decides what is best for all students and then all school systems have to comply. Has education improved since the institution of a federally run Dept of Education, or have we simply added a layer of bureaucracy, and cost?