A teacher’s perspective: Firing Day at a Charter School

[BrotherIvan]

2. Not surprisingly, this is corporate culture and it has no business in schools

I hope more parents get this message as they are sold a bill of goods about what a wonderful education their children will be getting at a charter school. Shiny new computers and fancy buildings can't make up for a good teacher. The corporatists propaganda campaign has worked. Parents have been convinced that teachers are lazy, union thugs.

I hope the teachers' union figures out a way to counter this as the vampires smell their favorite blood, $$$$, and they won't let go until the body is drained. Allowing Duncan and Rhee et al to lead education under a Democratic administration means it has gotten way too far. I'm glad I don't have a school-age child as this would make me weep every day. If parents care about their children, they will fight for their teachers.