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Smarmie Doofus
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Smarmie Doofus's Journal
May 24, 2013
It's true. The politicians... and the people who OWN them... have to get over the idea that they....
... have any useful role to play in how schools are designed and run.
The truth is they understand *nothing*.
Teachers go into teaching and not investment banking because they care about kids. Investment bankers and politicians go into investment banking and politics because they care about INVESTMENT BANKING AND POLITICS.
It's a titanically bad idea to turn education policy over to people so inclined. Schools need to be places where teachers can teach and not obsess about not meeting political benchmarks and aligning the instruction with politically-inspired "standards". And they need to be run by principals who know how to teach and can develop that ability in others.
That ain't happening anymore.
I wonder why.
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