Not More of this Value Added Assessment ****!!!

[SoBronxSchool]

http://www.southbronxschool.com/2011/08/not-more-of-this-value-added-assessment.html

Sad news today. In an unanimous edict, the state appeals court ruled that the city can turn over Teacher Data Reports of teachers in grades 4-8 to the media. Rupert Murdoch and the New York Post are said to be quite overwhelmed with joy right now.

So it is not enough that teachers as a whole, as a group are being disparaged continuously by the press further sinking the degree in which this once proud profession was held, not they must go after individual teachers. Worse, teachers will be targeted, outed, and shamed using an unreliable method of assessment.

If and when Uncle Mike runs for a 4th term or decides to throw his hat in the ring for God, just what would he say when polls show him trailing and the margin of error is 35%? Would he not dismiss the polling data? Would he not tell us pay no attention to the poll, for polls are notoriously skewed and incorrect? Yes, this person and his sock puppet Dennis Walcott are having the New York media do its dirty work and file FOILs on the city's behalf for no other reason to chip away another brick, another layer in one of the most endearing professions there are. Teaching children.

[Smarmie Doofus]

1. Rec for analysis. But it's a supremely bad idea to go....

... after other municipal unions. Yes, it would dramatize the hypocrisy of of the city and the $$$ media ( who like to romanticize police and firefighters ) but it would drive a wedge between us and our natural allies.