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--- On Sat, 7/24/10, Doug Henwood <dhenwood at panix.com> wrote:
> From: Doug Henwood <dhenwood at panix.com>
> Subject: Re: [lbo-talk] DC fires teachers
> To: lbo-talk at lbo-talk.org
> Date: Saturday, July 24, 2010, 8:05 AM
>
> On Jul 24, 2010, at 8:43 AM, James Leveque wrote:
>
> > Where is all this policy going, anyway? So Rhee fires
> over 300 teachers and
> > admin support and they replace them with, who...? I
> know that Obama talks as
> > if highly skilled teachers grow on trees, but Rhee,
> DC's mayor, Dept. of Ed.
> > etc. must know that the teachers hired to replace
> those who got the ax are
> > going to be mostly young and inexperienced and
> probably aren't likely to get
> > any better scores. So what happens when 200+ of those
> new teachers don't
> > have high enough scores? Do they get fired too? Do we
> just have year after
> > year of mass firings, or is there some kind of
> endgame?
>
> Well, Goldman Sachs supposedly fires the bottom 15% or so
> every year. Maybe that's the model?
>
> And new teachers are cheap and exploitable. If you think
> that they just want to produce the same crappy educational
> results while spending less money, this is one way to go
> about it. Charters, too.
>
> Doug
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