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Old 03-14-2012, 10:37 AM
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Originally Posted by piece-itpete View Post
I know two people functionally illiterate - with Cleveland HS diplomas.

Pete
Probably like the situation recently in DC, they fired a really good teacher using that ditzy woman Rhee's rating scheme. It seems that her fifth grade students were promoted from the fourth grade because "someone" erased the wrong answers on the tests and put in the right answers. After all the school would have been punished under these half-assed new testing schemes. Fairfax county in VA grabbed the teacher in a flash.

As a former teacher I really wish people who know nothing about teaching would take all their "expertise" and shove it. If we don't get these "experts" out of the damn way we will wind up with a functionally illiterate nation. Oh but we will have destroyed the teachers unions and driven all the good teachers out of the system so that will be OK.
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