Let them eat cupcakes. Plus why Michelle Rhee is lawyering up.

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65. I have no particular affection for her.

I didn't watch the follow-up on the net (I don't really care to listen to her either).

She did talk about some of the kind of reforms that I'd like to see. It looks as though she has abused the system (according to the lady that was interviewed in the OP). While I can't get behind her abusing the very system that she is trying to implement; it doesn't change the fact that her performance in the interview didn't damage her reputation among non-educators.

Obviously I can't support someone who gets a group of adults together after school and erases tests to improve scores as she allegedly did, but I suspect that there is a disconnect between what the children are being taught and what the tests cover; which is one of my issues with the current system.

I expect a lot of us 'outsiders' believe that the system needs updated (for example the length of the school day and summer vacation) and for educators who believe that the system is just fine the way it is; I warn you that unless you get a better PR campaign - it isn't gonna be pretty.