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Arne, you are just the gift that keeps on giving....

"nea hearts arne" or "WTF? are you crazy!!!"

New Business Item 36 called for the removal of Arne Duncan as Secretary of Education. Despite several well-informed speeches in support of this NBI, it was defeated. It is a mystery to me how a room full of educators, all of us victims of Duncan's horrific education policies, could continue to support Arne Duncan. His policies are harming our nation's non-elite children and the majority vote seems to send a message that that's OK with the majority of teachers. WTF? Either there's not much critical thinking going on among the delegation, or people are just plain stupid.  Here's what I had to say...

ATeacherAnon addressing 10,000 delegates at the NEA RA 2013

 

My name is *ATeacherAnon* from California. I am a proud member of the Badass Teachers Association. I am speaking as an individual in support of NBI 36.

As CEO of Chicago Public Schools, Arne Duncan instituted policies that were harmful to the city's children. In Chicago, he instituted school turnarounds, firing the staff and turning schools into charter schools managed by for-profit management companies.

He closed neighborhood schools, forcing children to walk through the communities of rival gang members and attend schools along with those gang members. This policy resulted in increased violence, including murder.

Arne supports charter schools, as well as the highly unqualified Teach For Awhile program which sends recent college graduates with 5 weeks of training into schools serving our neediest children.

He supports evaluating teachers by test scores.

He supports high stakes testing.

He reveres truth-challenged Michelle Rhee yet doesn't support public school teachers.
(See Rhode Island and New Orleans)

Race to the Top and Son of Race to the Top are nothing more than bribery schemes. Education is not a competition. Bribing financially strapped districts to adopt expensive, bad ideas is unconscionable.

And non-educator Arne Duncan, along with Bill Gates's former staffers, have been working diligently to impose Duncan's failed Chicago strategies on our nation's public school children.

As Secretary of Education, Arne totally sucks... And not in a good way.

We need a lifelong educator as our Secretary of Education.

Support NBI 36

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Oh. The. Irony.

nea ra 2013 - in opposition to nbi a

I tried, but the delegation voted to support spreading the Corporate Core propaganda.  Here's what I said:

My name is ATeacherAnon from California and this is my first RA.  I am speaking as an individual.

I strongly oppose NEA’s support of the Corporate-, Privatizer-, Education Deformer-, Bill Gates-driven Common Core State Standards, which were NOT developed by real, certificated CLASSROOM teachers or child development experts.

Nationally renowned early childhood expert Dr. Nancy Carlsson Paige's research told us that out of the 135 people who developed the K-3 standards, there were NO classroom teachers or child development experts among them,  resulting in standards that are not developmentally appropriate.

Dr. Stephan Krashen predicts that the CCSS will increase testing twentyfold.

I predict that that our already narrow, boring curricula will continue to be so. I predict that we will continue to ignore the needs of the whole child. I predict that we will continue to waste months of instructional time on test prep and testing.

As our class sizes continue to grow, precious dollars will be used to buy technology to serve the Corporate Core. I've read the Finnish national education standards. They do not look at all like the Common Core.

My professional conscience leads me to support real, classroom teacher-driven change, not corporate driven change.  We are burning out and stressing out kids. Kids have become disengaged from learning.

I oppose having my union dues spent to support the CCSS and spread Corporate Core propaganda to our students, families, and colleagues.

I urge you to oppose support for the implementation of these expensive, unproven set of standards.

I urge you, instead to support real, classroom teacher-driven change that will address the individual needs of all of our children.

Haven't we learned anything from NCLB?

turning high-stakes testing on its head...

 The following is dedicated to the tireless efforts of Peggy Robertson and the founding members of United Opt Out National....

Directions:

Be sure to color in the bubbles carefully. Take your time. Read the questions thoroughly.

When you are done checking your answers, turn your test upside down and wait patiently.

 Thank you for doing your best on this totally fucked up stupid invalid important exam.

Continue reading to learn:

How to opt out in California

Title 5.  EDUCATION

Division 1.  California Department of Education

Chapter 2.  Pupils

Subchapter 3.75.  Standardized Testing and Reporting Program

Article 2. Standards-Based Achievement Tests, Alternate Assessments,

and Any Primary Language Test

§ 852. Pupil Exemptions.

            A parent or guardian may submit to the school a written request to excuse his or her child from any or all parts of any test provided pursuant to Education Code section 60640. If a parent or guardian submits an exemption request after testing has begun, any test(s) completed before the request is submitted will be scored and the results reported to the parent or guardian and included in the pupil’s records. A school district and its employees may discuss the STAR Program with parents and may inform parents of the availability of exemptions under Education Code section 60615. The school district and its employees shall not solicit or encourage any written exemption request on behalf of any child or group of children.

NOTE: Authority cited: Sections 33031 and 60605, Education Code. Reference: Sections 60605, 60607, 60615, 60640 and 60641, Education Code. 

For learning how to opt out in other states, please visit United Opt Out National by clicking here.

Occupy the DOE 2.0, The Battle for Public Schools 

United Opt Out founders lead public education activists in a march 

to the White House to tell President Obama,

 "Our kids are more than a test score!"

Stephen Krashen and @ATeacherAnon

at the White House  

in honor of michelle rhee and her soon to be released memoir. the 3rd edition of michelle rhee - a glossarhee

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Rheeality:  an existence devoid of facts

Rheeally:  used to express surprise, interest or doubt as in “RUFKM?”  Serheeously!

Rheeap:  to obtain employment, wealth or stature through the efforts and/or contributions of sugar daddy billionaires

Rheecall: to cancel, take back, or revoke – sort of – a lie one has told

Rheecipient: an individual receiving kudos or monetary prizes based on false data

Rheecommendation:  a suggestion made by a highly unqualified person

Rheedact: to delete factual information from written or oral communication because said information does not support the rheetoric

Rheeduce: to diminish the status of professional public educators

Rheedundant: to rheepeat talking points endlessly in order to avoid questions whose answers would not support a particular rheeality

Rheefer: an herb smoked by corporate education deformers, often used to come up with the ridiculous shit they rheegurgitate incessantly

Rheeform:  drastic change imposed by clueless people and unsupported by peer-reviewed research or facts

Rheeformer:  an education deformer committed to imposing drastic change while willfully ignoring input from experts

Rheefudiate: to refuse to be challenged when telling lies, regardless of evidence

Rheefund: bonuses forced to be returned by rheecipients of rheewards based on excessive rheerasures

Rheefurbish: to attempt to repair the status and reputation of one caught in a lie

Rheegret:  sadness felt by a rheeformer when caught in a lie and/or cheating

Rheegurgitate:  to spew out nonsense; usually done by education deformers

Rheehearse: to practice and repeat key phrases or sound bites for later public performance; e.g. status quo; dramatically change; change the trajectory; put adult interests ahead of students; rheesearch shows; a teacher’s value-added; I don't give a crap.

Rheeinstate: to call back teachers fired based on criteria that violated contract

Rheeinvent:  to spin shamelessly in order to aggrandize one’s self

Rheeism:  a lie

Rheelay:  to receive and pass on misinformation and/or lies

Rheelinquish: to give up one’s throne due to the anger of the constituency

Rheeluctant: unwilling or disinclined to deal with facts

Rheemail:  an electronic communication generated by an education rheeformer

Rheemember:  to rheecall alleged facts based on hearsay

Rheemove:  to fire without cause; to fire and replace with cheap, unqualified labor

Rheepeal:  in tandem with complicit union leaders, to make invalid contractual protections, denying educators of important rights

Rheepeat:  stating a lie over and over in an attempt to create a truth

Rheephrase: to express a lie in a different way, especially with the purpose of inciting fear or deflecting truth when confronted with facts

Rheeplace: to change a wrong answer to a right answer; provide or find a substitute for an ousted quack or fraud

Rheeplay:  to play back a section of a rheecording in order to watch and/or hear one’s self again and again and again

Rheeply:  an answer most likely untrue

Rheeprehensible: see Michelle Rhee

Rheerase:  a strategy employed to raise test scores

Rheerasure:  the outcome as a rheesult of rheerasing.

Rheesearch:  a billionaire-funded investigation initiated to support a predetermined outcome

Rheesign:  to leave a job after 3 years

Rheesist: to vigorously deny facts

Rheespond: to answer a question with a lie

Rheespect: a positive feeling of esteem or deference given to public education deformers, Teach for America, or those determining education policy with no background in education whatsoever

Rheestate:  to state again the same lie in a new form

Rheesult:  an outcome obtained through questionable, unethical, illegal, or immoral means; a fake outcome

Rheesumé:  a page full of lies

Rheetaliate:  to seek revenge in an especially evil manner

Rheetard:  a devotee of Michelle Rhee; a member of the Michelle Rhee Fan Club

Rheetell:  to change one’s story multiple times; back peddle

Rheetire: to be forcefully driven from one’s position or occupation under a cloak of controversy

Rheetoric: sh!t spewed by Michelle Rhee and other like-minded deformer idiots (See Duncan, Gates, Broad, Kopp, Guggenheim, Oprah, and most of the cast of Waiting for Superman)

Rheetract:  to quickly take back or disavow incorrectly marked test answers or verifiable statements of intentional misinformation

Rheeturn: to elect, or rheeelect, legislators favorable to corporate deformer agendas, usually Republicans or Neo-Liberal Democrats

Rheeverse: acting, operating, or arranged in a manner contrary to proven effective public education policies

Rheeview:  to examine facts then willfully and intentionally dismiss them

Rheevile:  to criticize in an abusive or angrily insulting manner, often involving the word crap or crappy

Rheevise:  to prepare a newly rheerased, edited version of what rheelly was; to intentionally change or modify in order to mislead

Rheevision:  an illegally altered final draft or new version of existing material

Rheevoke: in high-stakes testing, a revoke is a violation of important rules serious enough to render the results invalid. A rheevoke is a violation ranked in seriousness equal to overt cheating, a major offense that is not accidental.

Rheeview: to look over, study, examine facts again then choose to ignore them

Rheevolution: an attack on public education orchestrated by the corporate education deformers.

Rheeward:  a monetary prize based on bogus test scores

Rheewrite:  to write something again in order to embellish or falsify an existing document

Unrheedeemable:  not capable of being cured or reformed due to vicious, destructive actions taken in the name of corporate ed deform

Unrheesonable:  having unsound judgment; unfair and insensible; often in regard to education policy