[lbo-talk] More "school reform" nonsense

shag carpet bomb shag at cleandraws.com
Tue May 25 14:12:51 PDT 2010


should gather up the tests, throw them from the top of a staircase and grade acc to how they fall.

shag


> Carrol Cox wrote:
>> Damn it. Nothing is more destructive of anything remotely
>> approaching
>> class solidarity than this fucking stupid idea that somehow the
>> incompetent should be "weeded out." People are not weeds to begin
>> with.
>> Accept the fact that any work force is going to be varied, and
>> rather
>> than this stupid and impossble and divisive obsession with
>> competence
>> give a little bit of thought to performing the best possible with a
>> given work force.
>
> I am sympathetic to this position in the abstract; however, when we're
> trying to get things done in an educational organization, turning a
> blind eye to people who don't do their work causes all kinds of
> problems
> for students, faculty, and staff. One example: a faculty member at a
> vaguely unidentified college I've worked at refused to grade final
> papers for a number of terms, and the department chair and another
> faculty member did the grading so that the students would get their
> grades on time for the hard work they did. What are we supposed to do
> about that? Is it wrong for me to argue that this faculty member
> should
> not be allowed to impose additional workload on colleagues?
>
> Miles
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