Scott Walker Needs an Eraser

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Scott Walker Needs an Eraser

by Gail Collins at the NY Times

http://www.nytimes.com/2015/02/14/opinion/gail-collins-scott-walker-needs-an-eraser.html?rref=opinion&module=Ribbon&version=context&region=Header&action=click&contentCollection=Opinion&pgtype=article&_r=0

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That budget also contains another interesting education idea that Walker has yet to blame on inept typists. He wants to change the way teachers are licensed. Basically, the plan would be to let people with “real-life experience” just take a test to demonstrate that they knew their subject matter. It appears to require no training whatsoever in the actual art of teaching.

“Teaching is more than just knowing stuff,” protested Tony Evers, the state superintendent of public instruction. “It is an extraordinarily complex skill.” You may not be surprised to hear that in Wisconsin, the superintendent of education is not appointed by the governor. Evers was elected on his own, and his office is extremely unhappy about Walker’s new plan.

“We don’t know the origins of this idea. It wasn’t discussed,” said John Johnson, a spokesman for the superintendent. “We’re requiring more rigor of our students, but this certainly seems like a decrease in the rigor we require of our teachers.”

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But it gives us a fresh look at the wave of attacks on teachers’ unions around the country. We definitely do not want to protect incompetent or lazy teachers. On the other hand, if you believe that teaching is a skill that it takes years of practice to master, you also do not want to encourage politicians to save money by canning the most expensive and most experienced teachers.



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1. All the while claiming to be for excellent, experienced teachers. What a hypocrite.

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Psychopaths love spreading one reality while another reality, the real agenda, which is completely the opposite, is actually going on. Called a 180 degree tell. Makes them feel they got one up on folks. And they like that feeling. Because they are sadistic. Walker is just getting his jollies. Do the GOP base know it is all just about Walker's jollies? That and to destroy teaching as a profession. All so rich don't have to pay taxes and teaching will go back to being a job for the working poor and attract only the lower middle class. I had a great aunt who was a teacher in a rural community. She lived off of her brother's, my grandfather's, farm to make ends meet. She also took in sewing. People who would normally go into teaching as a career will not if the teaching market ends up being what Walker wants. Do the GOP want lesser teachers.....who inspire students less? It looks like it. Maybe they want passive and unfired students to grow up to be passive and unfired voters. Who knows what lurks in the 'heart' and dreams of Walker.