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In reply to the discussion: Obama's 'Race To The Top' Drives Nationwide Wave of School Closings, Teacher Firings [View all]knitter4democracy
(14,350 posts)50. I teach in a transformational school. The article's accurate.
We're just starting the process, and, yes, it's all about RTTT and the money. Constant threat of losing my job, constantly rising expectations with fewer resources to meet those expectations, and constant stress. That's what it's like to teach these days, and Obama's not helped that at all but instead made it worse.
I refused to give a dime in his reelection, and I made sure all those phone bankers knew why. Teachers were thrown under the bus and then expected to work to get out the vote. No one I work with helped. Not one. We're all too angry at what his administration is doing to public education.
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Obama's 'Race To The Top' Drives Nationwide Wave of School Closings, Teacher Firings [View all]
HiPointDem
Jan 2013
OP
My cousin is a teacher, she makes about 50 grand a year. She's afraid that they'll start firing
DogPawsBiscuitsNGrav
Jan 2013
#22
I'd personally rather see the truth even if it's an ugly one so I know how best to proceed from
DogPawsBiscuitsNGrav
Jan 2013
#24
Sorry Sid, Obama is not a Democratic candidate. The election is over and he won.
Autumn
Jan 2013
#35
Green Democrat or whatever. Doesn't matter. This isn't about the Party or the man.
Autumn
Jan 2013
#38
I don't know who Bruce Dixon is and I don't care, if as you say he's a member of the
Autumn
Jan 2013
#41
Ganging up on whom, madfloridian? The Black Agenda Report is certainly deserving of scorn, and
msanthrope
Jan 2013
#72
"this is only deserving of the same type of scorn usually reserved for WSWS"
madfloridian
Jan 2013
#74
What is true about an article that claims of "waves of firings" due to RTTT, but fails to
msanthrope
Jan 2013
#77
they are cheating and lying for their own purpose, they just use this to bully good teachers/schools
Follow The Money
Jan 2013
#12
Nothing to refute...the author claims waves of firings but fails to prove that.
msanthrope
Jan 2013
#30
he's closing schools & firing teachers, that's what he (or rather, his Ed Dept) is doing. Mandated
HiPointDem
Jan 2013
#43
i understand the motives of the critics here. & i think anyone who reads their comments can
HiPointDem
Jan 2013
#53
Yes, it is quite true. The poster is being bullied for criticizing Obama's policy.
madfloridian
Jan 2013
#55
+1. but to the extent that it's even mentioned in the media it's disguised as something else:
HiPointDem
Jan 2013
#59
"his silence betrays him" = +100. along with the silence of most of the so-called 'progressive'
HiPointDem
Jan 2013
#64
The policy is self-fulfilling by structure to be negative to the public school system
PufPuf23
Jan 2013
#71
Yeah, just because RTTT *mandates* that state ID their lowest 5% of schools & submit them to
HiPointDem
Jan 2013
#83
Here's what's happening with one of those great charter schools that replaced a Memphis public
HiPointDem
Jan 2013
#84