Video of Chicago teachers being treated like children in meeting. It's humiliating.

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29. Obama's BFF, Chicago mayor Rahm Emanuel's Minority-Bashing School Closings to save $$$

But surely, if even one of Obama's ardent fans would forward a clip of this to the White House, he'd immediately call Rahm and tell him to stop this practice! Well . . . . perhaps not. When the Obama family lived in Chicago, their daughters went to the elite University of Chicago laboratory school. And quelle surprise! That's where Rahm chose to send his kids as well! They don't need no stinkin' public schools where teachers' pay is tied to test scores.

The decision where to send your kids to school is a personal one, but it is worth publicly noting what public officials, who support test-based school reform (including Obama's main initiative, "Race to the Top&quot choose to do with their own children when given a choice.

http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/answer-sheet/post/chicago-mayor-rahm-emanuel-chooses-private-school-for-kids/2011/07/21/gIQAzES7RI_blog.html
Chicago Mayor Rahm Emanuel chooses private school for kids
By Valerie Strauss

Chicago Mayor Rahm Emanuel, who strongly supports school reform that centers on standardized test-based accountability for students, schools and teachers, has decided to send his children to a private school that doesn’t obsess on standardized tests. Emanuel, who served in the White House as President Obama’s chief of staff for a few years, and his wife have chosen, according to a local radio station CBS News 2 in Chicago, to send their three children to the prestigious University of Chicago Laboratory Schools in Hyde Park.

Obama and now Emanuel opted for schools that do not require teachers to spend hours a week drilling kids to pass standardized tests, and they don’t evaluate teachers by how well their students do on those assessments. Education Secretary Arne Duncan and his wife send their children to Arlington public schools in Virginia.

Neither the Arlington Public School system, nor Sidwell, nor The Lab Schools, assess teachers by student standardized test grades, which is a bad idea sweeping the country, encouraged by the Obama administration.

When a veteran teacher asked Sidwell whether its ties teacher pay to test scores, he received this response from a faculty member on April 1, 2011: “We don’t tie teacher pay to test scores because we don’t believe them to be a reliable indicator of teacher effectiveness.” Sidwell knows better. The Lab Schools know better. The Arlington Public School District knows better.

Here's an article from last summer's Nation, titled:
RAHM EMANUEL'S MINORITY-BASHING SCHOOL CLOSINGS GO FORWARD

Today was the first day of school in Chicago—and a profound setback for Chicago’s forces of decency. Fifty fewer schools will be in operation this term, with 2,113 fewer staffers, a colossal injustice I’ve written about here and here and here and here. The school closings are going forward because ten days ago Federal District Judge John Z. Lee denied the attempt to get a preliminary injunction to prevent it. A week before that ruling, I spoke with one of the lawyers who brought the suit, Thomas Geoghegan, for my monthly interview series at Chicago’s Seminary Co-op Bookstore in Hyde Park—where I and my audience deepened our sense of just how mad and malign Mayor Rahm Emanuel’s schools agenda truly is.[

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http://www.thenation.com/blog/175902/school-daze-rahm-emanuels-minority-bashing-school-closings-go-forward