“You never let a serious crisis go to waste. And what I mean by that [is] it’s an opportunity to do things you think you could not do before.”
–Rahm Emanuel, Chief of Staff to President Barack Obama (Later Chicago Mayor); Nov. 19, 2008
Experienced teachers always have been the biggest obstacle to privatizing public schools and expanding standardized testing.
That’s why replacing them with new educators has been one of the highest priorities of corporate education reform.
After all, it’s much harder to try to indoctrinate seasoned educators with propaganda that goes against everything they learned to be true about their students and profession in a lifetime of classroom practice than to encourage those with no practical experience to just drink the Kool-Aid.
So it should come as no surprise that supply side policymakers are using the current teacher exodus as an excuse to remake…
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