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In reply to the discussion: Teacher’s resignation letter: ‘My profession … no longer exists’ [View all]defacto7
(13,485 posts)50. I could rec this a thousand times.
"in a misguided effort to fix what is not broken"
No one is trying to fix anything. It's a right wing plan to break it. Break the education system, turn it over to the private sector (Pearson and co.) and make the best education only available to those who can afford it. The rest become servants who are too stupid to know who to vote for and that voting even matters.
The plan is working.
There is nothing on earth more stupid than privatization of education. Standardizing education is to teach the mundane and undermine the advancement of society though the segregation of human abilities.
I do weep for America on this point, and I weep for the future of humankind.
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This is not just sad, it is catastrophic for the education of our citizens.
northoftheborder
Nov 2014
#2
I personally know more teachers who have not "quit" in the last 10 years. My sister in New York
Cha
Nov 2014
#33
I'm stating a fact.. too bad you have to bring "police brutality" into my sister's tenure as
Cha
Nov 2014
#40
Pearson is a British corporation. How's that for the British revenge?
Dont call me Shirley
Nov 2014
#30
"would have done something besides make it worse" < You mean like we have with the climate? n/t
jtuck004
Nov 2014
#45
Got any more recent "I quit" letters? I thought I had seen this before.. it's from April 6, 2014
Cha
Nov 2014
#34
I felt like this the day two imbeciles w. clipboards came into the classroom.....
Smarmie Doofus
Nov 2014
#41