Tough Guy Joel Klein
What a load of bull crap.
According to ABC News Australia, Joel Klein is an educator who’s not afraid “to sack an entire teaching staff” when the school doesn’t perform.
Klein told interviewers, “I’ve shut down 70 schools, brought in a new principal who selected a new team and they are operating in a more effective way,” he said.
“We had high schools that had a 30 per cent graduation rate, I shut those schools down and replaced them with smaller high schools in the same building and some of those schools now have a 70 or 80 per cent graduation rate.”
What planet does this guy live on? Apparently, he had to go to Australia to get anyone to buy into his b.s.
Click here to read the revolting post, NY schools boss backs move to sack under-performing teachers.
Have a vomit bag handy.
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Yes, then they will all go to one specific school. As a result, the school will be deemed a failure. Super Chancellor Klein will swoop down from his fortress of solitude and “sack” all of the teachers and turn the school into “successful” minischools,and so on, and so, on…
He didn’t really say that, though. All he said was that some of the minischools were doing better. He didn’t say most or how many. Even if we are to take the chancellor at his word, that’s a highly nebulous achievement, akin to the class size reduction agreement that carried no consequences for abject failure to reduce class size.
NYC Educators last blog post..We Should Teach Creation Science in Public Schools
Now he’s begging and pleading for mayoral control to be extended. “We’ve got a long road to go”, seems to be a phrase leaders use when they’re not really sure of what they’re doing, and, when they want their job positions to be extended.
Remarkable. So if I get rid of the ESL students, the special ed. students, and the entire student body I can cut the old school into five new ones, reduce the size of the school by 80% and get a higher graduation rate, sometimes?
Now there’s headline news for ya.