This op-ed is almost OK. They end up saying "just do it" "ditch the bad." OK, as far as it goes.
But it doesn't go far enough.
There's still the insistence that we "keep what's good" -- the obligatory bow to the wonders of "accountability." As if the FCAT is the only way a parent could know what's going on with their child in their school.
"Just do it" -- ditch the whole thing and get on with figuring out how schools can truly serve children and their communities.
Sunday, February 25, 2007
Almost OK
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Nance, I was at the Educator Roundtable meeting Saturday in Atlanta, and one speaker, a professor there, mentioned how all we hear in education now is "accountability," a term that comes from the business world. He said that in education, we used to talk about "responsibility." Where did that go? It just disappeared and was replaced with "accountability."
I think educators and parents must take back a public education system and debate that's been hijacked by corporate America. Let's stop giving lip service to "accountability" and get back to our responsibilities to the children in public school classrooms.
So you think the actual people involved in the school system should run it? Radical thought! :)
I'd love to hear more about the Roundtable. There was the post at DailyKos about it: http://www.dailykos.com/story/2007/3/17/63016/1916
Nance
Nance, the Educator Roundtable has a web site at http://www.educatorroundtable.org/ and a blog at http://www.educatorroundtable.net/frontPage.do .
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