Well, shit…THAT didn’t work. Now what?
by teachbad
This is stunning.
You remember Michelle Rhee, right? She came to turn the DC public school system around. In 2007 she grabbed this city by the throat and shook it into submission. Teachers were fired by the hundreds and principals by the dozens. Thousands have left the system because they did not want to work under the conditions Rhee and Jason Kamras, her chief teacher technician, were imposing.
That was fine with her. Screw ‘em. She would find new people who were willing to work hard and believed in children. Millions upon millions of new dollars were found and spent on telling teachers how to teach, rewarding the lapdogs and ferreting out the infidels.
Big change never comes easy. You can’t make an omelet without breaking some eggs, etc. But if the right people have
