[lbo-talk] DC fires teachers

Carrol Cox cbcox at ilstu.edu
Fri Jul 23 16:44:54 PDT 2010


Chuck Grimes wrote:
>
> Washington, D.C. schools Chancellor Michelle Rhee announced Friday the
> firing of 241 teachers who did not meet standards set forth by a new
> district-wide evaluation system.

The education offered the students will not improve in the least; it may even worsen from demoralization of faculty.

But 214+ lives have been fucked up.

And those doing the firing know this. One can't guess their internal motives, but I would choose to assign the motive to the anxiety of administrative personnel to suck up to those highere up yet.

Carrol



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