Saturday, January 29, 2011

I asked Rob Prince, a CounterPuncher in Denver what the real story is on Bruce Randolph.

Rob sent me back this comment from Phil Woods, a poet andretired teacher:

“My take on Bruce Randolph, and I used to know the principal a little bit because she was an assistant at South when I first got there, is that it fits the Arnie Duncan model. You cherry pick minorities for college track, kick out all the other difficult kids, get the unions to give you a waiver so you work the teachers to death and call it progress. The point is, as with charter schools, this kind of stuff tends to be unsustainable because it causes teacher burn out. As with so much else, educational “reform” has to use market forces, etc. etc. All else is outside the pale.”

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