Barney Bishop: The Litmus test for Teachers' Bill SB6. By Geniusofdespair
How do you know if the teacher bill is good or bad? Barney Bishop supports it. Say no more: It is very bad. John Thrasher and Jeb Bush too...wow, this bill has 3 strikes of bad.
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Barney Bishop; is he the new education director at Fairchild Garden?
I have been waiting for teachers to rise up. The decade of high-stakes testing they did nothing. Finally, they rise up. They have the power to clean out both the house and the senate, and replace all the seats with teachers or with people who will not go againist education principles. Lets see if they take control of the playing field. . .
THIS IS AN EXCHANGE FROM ANOTHER READER AND ME FROM AN EARLIER POST....THOUGHT IT RELEVANT HERE ------------- David said...
Hey, Genius, help me understand. What's wrong with accountability and standards? This is Dave (not from FPL) by the way.
------------ Blogger Geniusofdespair said...
Look at the cartoon Dave (THE MARIN CARTOON ABOUT TESTING ACCOUNTABILITY OF LEGISLATORS BY TANGIBLE RESULTS FOR THE PEOPLE OF FLORIDA). Some things don't translate to accountability and standards because there is no way to measure...like in the cartoon. A test doesn't measure success.
For instance, principal Barney Bishop doesn't like Dave the teacher. So he puts 3 creole speaking kids, a mainstreamed learning disabled kid, 3 kids with emotional problems all in Dave's class. Dave does a bang-up job helping these kids but on the test the students do poorly. Annoying Dave is out on his ass. But pretty teacher Sarah who had a tame class just got a raise. Lucky she is dating Barney.
You can't measure human beings like a profit margin. They are not a sales quota. I have been in classrooms where you have to move the hands of profoundly retarded children. I have been in classes with children who can't sit still for 10 seconds, and kids suffering from alcoholic syndrome.
Unless you have been in a classroom do not judge teachers. If they teach students how to dress, how to act in society, sometimes that is a lot. Teachers have to teach social skills because the parents didn't do that. I asked my niece, if you found an an envelope with an address and a stamp on it, what would you do with it (that it is an IQ question). My niece said, I would throw it away. What is that about? WRONG. Why doesn't a 10 year old know that? You have to teach too much today because of what the parents are NOT teaching the kids. DON'T JUDGE TEACHERS UNLESS YOU TEACH.
So if the parents are idiots and can't learn right from wrong as you so ably demonstrated, nothing has changed regardless of what teachers are paid. NO ACCOUNTABILITY IS THE LEFTY POSITION!!! I said it last week and you removed it, forget Creole and Spanish, we have a national language it is English. All classes taught in one language will save money. Especially at election time, where are we at the UN or in the U.S.? Just like most of our ancestors, learn the language of your adopted country and stop making excuses for more entitlements.
I am saying if a child has a language barrier he or she cannot master the work required to pass the FCAT.
So the teacher suffers because a child is put in his or her class that doesn't understand the lessons and can't take a test, is that fair? That seems fair to you? Did you read what you wrote Mr. Bootstrap? I wouldn't be very proud of it.
As a teacher I must say that rarely have I heard anyone describe the essence of a genuine education and the dynamics of today's public school classroom in Florida as well as you did Geniusofdespair. And if you are not a teacher yourself it's flat out astounding.
7 comments:
Barney Bishop; is he the new education director at Fairchild Garden?
I have been waiting for teachers to rise up. The decade of high-stakes testing they did nothing. Finally, they rise up. They have the power to clean out both the house and the senate, and replace all the seats with teachers or with people who will not go againist education principles. Lets see if they take control of the playing field. . .
THIS IS AN EXCHANGE FROM ANOTHER READER AND ME FROM AN EARLIER POST....THOUGHT IT RELEVANT HERE
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David said...
Hey, Genius, help me understand. What's wrong with accountability and standards? This is Dave (not from FPL) by the way.
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Blogger Geniusofdespair said...
Look at the cartoon Dave (THE MARIN CARTOON ABOUT TESTING ACCOUNTABILITY OF LEGISLATORS BY TANGIBLE RESULTS FOR THE PEOPLE OF FLORIDA). Some things don't translate to accountability and standards because there is no way to measure...like in the cartoon. A test doesn't measure success.
For instance, principal Barney Bishop doesn't like Dave the teacher. So he puts 3 creole speaking kids, a mainstreamed learning disabled kid, 3 kids with emotional problems all in Dave's class. Dave does a bang-up job helping these kids but on the test the students do poorly. Annoying Dave is out on his ass. But pretty teacher Sarah who had a tame class just got a raise. Lucky she is dating Barney.
You can't measure human beings like a profit margin. They are not a sales quota. I have been in classrooms where you have to move the hands of profoundly retarded children. I have been in classes with children who can't sit still for 10 seconds, and kids suffering from alcoholic syndrome.
Unless you have been in a classroom do not judge teachers. If they teach students how to dress, how to act in society, sometimes that is a lot. Teachers have to teach social skills because the parents didn't do that. I asked my niece, if you found an an envelope with an address and a stamp on it, what would you do with it (that it is an IQ question). My niece said, I would throw it away. What is that about? WRONG. Why doesn't a 10 year old know that? You have to teach too much today because of what the parents are NOT teaching the kids. DON'T JUDGE TEACHERS UNLESS YOU TEACH.
So if the parents are idiots and can't learn right from wrong as you so ably demonstrated, nothing has changed regardless of what teachers are paid.
NO ACCOUNTABILITY IS THE LEFTY POSITION!!!
I said it last week and you removed it, forget Creole and Spanish, we have a national language it is English. All classes taught in one language will save money. Especially at election time, where are we at the UN or in the U.S.? Just like most of our ancestors, learn the language of your adopted country and stop making excuses for more entitlements.
I am not saying you shouldn't teach in English.
I am saying if a child has a language barrier he or she cannot master the work required to pass the FCAT.
So the teacher suffers because a child is put in his or her class that doesn't understand the lessons and can't take a test, is that fair? That seems fair to you? Did you read what you wrote Mr. Bootstrap? I wouldn't be very proud of it.
As a teacher I must say that rarely have I heard anyone describe the essence of a genuine education and the dynamics of today's public school classroom in Florida as well as you did Geniusofdespair. And if you are not a teacher yourself it's flat out astounding.
Thanks!!!
Was a teacher for a very short time in Florida...enough to identify with the hard job that teachers have.
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