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16. Schools shouldn't be run like businesses BUT...

Tue Dec 2, 2014, 08:36 PM

Dec 2014

Those in charge should have SOME business sense--and most of them don't. I'm generalizing here, but it seems that the typical educational leader (or "leader", which may be more accurate...) is a sucker for "razzle dazzle", to quote the other poster here. Why bring in some students who need service credits when you can spend $120/hour for TeachLive? Why use a projector when you can use a (fraudulently researched) Whiteboard? Why use a simple and cheap teacher evaluation system when you can spend years trying to implement a moronic system like Marzano?

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Anyone buying Apple products with taxpayer funds should be sent to jail TekGryphon Dec 2014 #1

It was a showboating maneuver Starry Messenger Dec 2014 #4

Schools shouldn't be run like businesses BUT... Ka hrnt Dec 2014 #16

I said that whole scheme was a con from day one Blue_Tires Dec 2014 #2

Same here. Starry Messenger Dec 2014 #3

Fun with DU archives: Blue_Tires Dec 2014 #6

Ah memories! Starry Messenger Dec 2014 #7

I added a couple more Blue_Tires Dec 2014 #8

I know there were a couple that were real doozies. Starry Messenger Dec 2014 #9

Bluem, that was a prefect headline flow dixiegrrrrl Dec 2014 #14

the end is near DemandsRedPill Dec 2014 #5

Is that what happened to the iPads my children's school briefly had? abelenkpe Dec 2014 #10

I can only speculate at this point. Starry Messenger Dec 2014 #11

Thanks for the link! abelenkpe Dec 2014 #12

No problem! Starry Messenger Dec 2014 #13

Our District middle schoolers have them issued to them the last couple of years. denbot Dec 2014 #15