Increase in Homeless Students Attributed to Bad Teaching

[proud2BlibKansan]

NYC Mayor Michael Bloomberg commented on the increase in homeless students over the last few years.

"Clearly the teachers are not doing their jobs," pointed out Mayor Bloomberg. "Why didn't they warn kids about the danger of being homeless? Sure, it may not be part of the curriculum, but it's common sense."

Mayor Bloomberg promised to lobby for any teacher with a significant percentage of homeless students to be labeled "ineffective" under the new rating system. "Schools with a lot of homeless students ought to be closed," commented the mayor. "There are plenty of up-and-coming charters that could use that space, and I guarantee you the students they pick will not be homeless. This is why, here in New York, we offer school choice to absolutely anyone who wins a lottery."

Schools Chancellor Dennis Walcott said homelessness was unacceptable, and vowed to "do something to" teachers of homeless students.

Asked for comment, US Education Secretary Arne Duncan said, "This is a step in the right direction. It's about time we made teachers accountable for the plights of their students. If teachers can't correct things like homelessness and poverty, they need to be replaced, hopefully by young, idealistic, non-union TFAs who can be hired cheaply and replaced every few years. Ideally we'd have natural disasters like Katrina to wipe out unionized systems like we did in New Orleans, but meanwhile I'm grateful we have visionary leaders like Michael Bloomberg. I'd like to take this opportunity to thank the billionaires who fund DFER for hand-picking me for this gig. Where else but the US would someone with a failed program as miserable as the one I enacted in Chicago be able to advance so rapidly?"

more . . . http://nyceducator.com/2011/09/mayor4life-on-sharp-increase-in.html

[xchrom]

1. mayor bloomberg's mind must be homeless. nt

[rurallib]

2. I almost thought this was real - hard to believe that something

so over the top as this could actually be thought to be true.
But the way things are now, I would not be surprised to find teachers yet one more time being accused of something as crazy as this.

[proud2BlibKansan]

6. In Florida they're being evaluated and paid based on test scores of subjects they don't teach

Nothing surprises me anymore.

[a la izquierda]

3. I assume this is satire, no? NT

[XanaDUer]

4. WTF?

:wtf:

[Stargazer99]

5. Cons are functioning on denial of the reality on how some kids

must live in lack and lack of someone at home for them like in the 1950s. Teachers are not the problem. It is the ignorance of the so-called "betters" that is the root of the problem.