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hunter

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13. Treating education like a big corporate business is loathsome.

Mon Mar 23, 2015, 02:41 PM

Mar 2015

No different than if you treated parenting as a corporate business. Sorry kid, I have to let you go... Like the asshole who "re-homed" his adopted kid to a child rapist and, not uncoincidently, was heavily invested in the privatized school business.

Children are in no way "little employees" and teachers cannot be fully evaluated by their "productivity" in terms of standardized test scores because every community of children is different. High expectations for children is a very fine thing, but to compare two teachers on the basis of test scores, one who has a classroom full of affluent children of high achieving involved parents, and another who has a classroom full of kids who come to school hungry from homes and communities of grinding poverty and perpetual chaos, that is unfair.

I tried to be a public school science teacher in a rougher urban community and I did not survive to make a career of it. My wife's sister is a career science teacher and she sees things every day and deals with problems every day that simply do not exist in the corporate business world.

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If you live near a Whole Foods [View all] Recursion Mar 2015 OP

I'm kicking and recommending this short list... hunter Mar 2015 #1

The worldwide cutoff income for "the 1%" is like $24K Recursion Mar 2015 #3

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Who hates TED talks? Oktober Mar 2015 #2

That's an interesting list. LWolf Mar 2015 #5

I think between the ex military ex husband and daughter in law with the meth problem, bettyellen Mar 2015 #6

For tptb, LWolf Mar 2015 #9

Treating education like a big corporate business is loathsome. hunter Mar 2015 #13

Yes. LWolf Mar 2015 #16

I'm less of the problem than some smug TED asshole preaching to 1%ers. nt Dreamer Tatum Mar 2015 #7

Wealth privilege gollygee Mar 2015 #8

Including the location of a Whole Foods is a strange critera Revanchist Mar 2015 #10

I agree. Perhaps *shopping* mostly at Whole Foods would be a better marker. Gormy Cuss Mar 2015 #11

I haven't been there in awhile either Revanchist Mar 2015 #12

Sorta depends on the bulk item. Beans are generally cheaper by the bag in other stores Gormy Cuss Mar 2015 #18

i find those who do mostly shop in whole foods to be out of touch , by that i mean those who do most JI7 Mar 2015 #14

Lets look at the inverse and see how insulting it is... whatthehey Mar 2015 #15

Good point. Gormy Cuss Mar 2015 #19

The problem with his talk is that all of his points apply to himself, yet he preachs as if they Bluenorthwest Mar 2015 #17