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DIANE RAVITCH SAYS LAUSD IS NOT ALONE IN THE CLONE WARS

Obey or Quit-The Bullying In Education

by dianerav
http://dianeravitch.net/2013/01/12/obey-or-quit/


A teacher sent me this post, which has generated lots of discussion on Facebook.
She said that the discussion on this blog shows a widespread bullying of teachers by administrators, who are in turn being bullied to produce "results." Everyone is under pressure to meet demands created by politicians, economists, and statisticians who never spent a day in a school classroom after their high school graduation.
Here goes:
"Paul's Story"
Yesterday I received an emergency phone call from an experienced teacher in a Bronx school who received his first ever "U" on an observation report.
Emotionally overwrought with fear and anger, it took all I could do to calm him down and get him to figure out how he could resolve this issue and continue to teach and at