tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5303307482158922565.post4954200633406892205..comments2024-03-22T13:39:55.941-07:00Comments on Math Mama Writes...: Testing, Accountability, and TeachersSue VanHattumhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10237941346154683902noreply@blogger.comBlogger1125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5303307482158922565.post-30510177081657559182010-04-22T07:48:45.300-07:002010-04-22T07:48:45.300-07:00And think about this, because we don’t need a high...And think about this, because we don’t need a highly educated workforce, we don’t need highly educated teachers. Therefore, we can have a teaching force that’s a revolving door. Teachers will use standardized scripts. <br /><br />to wit: essentially that of alec balwin<br />in (the film of) _glengarry_glen_ross_:<br />"my watch cost more<br />than your car; that's<br />who *i* am..."<br />(so shut up and listen<br />to the same stuff you've<br />heard before a million times<br />and pretend to respect it<br />for the same reasons <br />you did then you peon;<br />CYA shall be the whole<br />of the law).<br /><br />"faculty development day"<br />at bigstate community college<br />is tomorrow but they done<br />developed my sorry self<br />right *outta* there so<br />of course i'll miss it.<br /><br />we (adjuncts) were never<br />required to attend but<br />i went anyhow sometimes...<br />and not only to watch <br />the regulars get tortured<br />(one time the keynote was<br />an outright salespitch [straight<br />from the company that had<br />sold it already to some<br />clueless-like-a-fox<br />revolving-door administrator] for<br />this beastly software already<br />smelling of disaster in its<br />early rolling-out stages<br />all over campus) or<br />torture each other (the<br />social "science" wing<br />in particular appears<br />to have been occupied<br />by the business equivalent<br />of a mind-control cult<br />with all their getting-to-<br />-know-you psychodramas)...<br />or even just for the free lunch<br />(though one *would* tend<br />to sort of skip the post-lunch<br />"breakout sessions" like the<br />sharpest of the pros would do<br />and instead go back to the office<br />to get some *real* work done);<br />no. i was a *union organizer*<br />and there are few better places<br />to find disgruntled workers<br />than the fringes of a mandatory<br />meeting for management messages.<br /><br />that the stars of these shows<br />should pass as model teachers<br />is cosmic joke (if you're not<br />a teacher).<br /><br />thanks for spotting lois weiner<br />(and doug noon!) here; good post.owen thomashttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09249915192605437832noreply@blogger.com