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Re: Apple II: Second Best Tech Product of All Time!
Charlie Springer wrote:
I think I see a 50 year cycle here and we are in the deep end of another. How
will the reform take place with an ever more powerful core of "professional
educators" creating curriculum and guidlines at the State level and a
powerful union like the NEA/state that fully supports the latest pedagogical
theories? This state has the EALR's, detailed buzz word descriptions of
everything that should be learned. It proved incomprehensible, so now we all
have copies of the GLE's; Grade Level Expectations, which are almost readable
translations into eduspeak. Teachers are expected to be able to show a
written lesson plan that includes little number/letter references to the
portions of the GLE that the sections of the plan are aligned to. As if there
wasn't enough work already.
They praise diversity but demand sameness. Fortunately, many older teachers
ignore it. Those fresh out of school embrace it all in an embarrassing
lock-step or brain washed ignorance.
Or, more likely, a desire for positive performance evaluations. If it's
anything like corporate America, one's job rating is solely and directly
proportional to how much of the institutional kool-aide you are perceived by
your supervisor to have drunk.
It's not about how much work you do nor its objective effectiveness; it's
about how much you _appear_ to do as measured by pointy-haired standards.
This crapola came in with the era of the MBA and may be best paraphrased as
"..I don't need to know anything about the industry I work in, I'm a
professional manager and trained to manage and measure anything!" I don't
think it's always been like this, but I've dealt with it all my working life
(currently 55 years young).
This is getting WAY off-topic, and I'm sorry to prolong it... <g>
Steve