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On Fri, 3 Oct 2014 15:34:32 -0500, Boating All Out
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Show me one other person who says she was fired, or retract that.

Does "forced out" suit your sensibilities.

No. Resigned does. Because she quit, pure and simple.
She's a quitter.

Bull**** You are starting to sound like Harry now.

Waa, waa. I hurt your feelings. Ain't that too bad.

There was tremendous political pressure to force Rhee out, not the
least of which was coming from Fenty who was fighting for his life.
Maybe you are just not familiar with this.

So ****ing what? You said she was fired. You DON'T GET to define
words. That's Webster's deal.
She resigned, and that's that.
If you knew anything about this. you'd know Gray refused to fire her,
agreed with most of her goals, and appointed her deputy as chancellor
after Rhee RESIGNED. But she was a loose canon with no manners.
She's a quitter. And a sociopath, and a failure.
And you like her because she hates unions.
I get it. But you'll get nowhere with nothing.

As to the rest, so what? Politicians are always getting burned, and
you'd better expect it when you enter that arena.
As I said before, teachers are just guides. It's up to kids and parents
to learn. That's how it is.
You think teachers are overpaid because they have unions.
Typical right-wing view. So bust the teachers unions.
Go right ahead.

I think the unions permit bad teachers to persist and they limit any
changes that might actually be better.
An example is a charter school that could tailor a program to a
special subset of kids with different needs.

Sounds like liberal bull**** to me. "Special subset."
You were crying about getting things standardized and now you want
"special subsets." They do plenty of that already.
More of it well just blow the expense to hell for touchy-feely.

Are you really just acting dumb to make a point? I said we should have
common MINIMUM standards but that does not mean common methods.

Yeah, I'm dumb. But not dumb enough to not think you don't know what
you're talking about.

If you have a subset of kids who can't read or do math at grade level,
you do not want to drag down a whole class to their level to
accommodate them. You need a different program to get them up to
speed.
The whole idea of holding kids back seems to have gone by the wayside.

What the hell are you talking about? Failure rates and holdbacks
continue apace. Where do you get these ideas? Political blogs?

This was where some of Rhee's charter schools were doing well. They
put "at risk" kids in special programs in charter schools.
It may have been expensive but if it works, it is far cheaper than a
life in prison.

Her charter schools WEREN'T doing well. That's just more of your
bull****.
Some kids are dumb, some don't try because their parents don't care
enough to keep their noses to the wheel. It's always been that way.
That's life. Get used to it.
Better teachers and charter schools won't do squat to cure stupidity and
parents not giving a **** about their kids' education.
"School reform" is bull****. Schools were good 40 years ago, and
they're good now.
They've just become a political football. Hell, you used them to bash
unions with some fairy tale about a discredited school administrator.
If you want better performance from schools, you're going to have to
change society.