Joel Klein, chancellor of nyc schools, belongs in jail

[Hannah Bell]

NYC Schools Chancellor Joel Klein was hired for one reason: not to improve PUBLIC schools but to open as many CHARTER schools as possible. How else do you explain a noneducator who never had an ounce of interest in education being hired to be CHANCELLOR OF PUBLIC SCHOOLS??? Where else would this have been acceptable?

Klein belongs in JAIL for knowingly neglecting our public school system in order to PRIVATIZE our schools. He didn't listen when educators were screaming that his policies and "reforms" weren't working. Neither did Bloomberg.

Now after (fraudulent test scores revealed) all that time wasted, money spent and worst of all millions of students CHEATED out of a decent well-rounded education, we are nowhere.

Wait! We've gotten somewhere. We've got a weaker school system, courtesty of the vast numbers of inept administrators that are running many schools into the ground. We've got less senior teachers who were an enormous asset to the system and not the burden which is what Klein would have you believe. We've got teachers signing on to teach for two-year terms and leaving thanks to programs like "Teach for America". We've got substandard curriculums(Teacher's College & Everyday Math) plaguing many of the schools here. We've got schools buildings loaded with rookie teachers. We've got communities being destabilized by the loss of their local public schools in order to accomodate charter operators. We've got public schools forced to share space with charters causing much grief at those schools for parents, teachers & students. We've got testing-factories for schools now. Superintendents with no real power. No one to turn to if the school's principal is doing a poor job. I could go on and on...Yeah, we've gotten somewhere.....in a mess.

http://queensteacher2.blogspot.com/2010/08/klein-belongs-in-jail.html


School deform = one enormous fraudulent robbery.

[Starry Messenger]

1. It's a criminal conspiracy.

The whole pack of weasels should be in jail.

[Smarmie Doofus]

2. Yes. But it seems unlikely to happen. *However*....

it sounds like thousands of parents have solid grounds to bring civil actions against the city. Proving that Klein and Bloomberg knew... or should have known... that the tests were fixed should be a relatively easy task . Plenty was written
publicly over the last eight years, in many different fora... both on and off line... that cast doubt on the validity of the tests.

People made life-altering decisions with respect to their children on he basis of the NYS test scores. Whether to keep the kid in school, or take him out; whether to get him tutoring, or NOT to get him tutoring; whether to stay in the district or move to a less dysfunctional district. It's beyond obvious that state and city education officials acted in concert to conceal the actual nature of the tests from the parents of public school students... thereby depriving said parents of the the chance to make these life altering decisions on the basis OF THE BEST AVAILABLE EVIDENCE.

Whether Klein et. al broke laws is less clear,,,, i.e. it's unclear that they can be criminally prosecuted. Depends on how the laws pertaining to this sort of situation, ( assuming there ARE such laws) are written. But seems like a no brainer to me that city and state officials acted negligently and that a great many people are owed damages.

[Hannah Bell]

3. bloomberg, klein, & moskowitz -- grifters, they should all be in jail.

[Smarmie Doofus]

4. Jail, maybe. Negligent and malfeasant: absolutely. nt