Re:To Fix America's Education Bureaucracy, We Need to Destro...
by praxeologist on Saturday April 07, 2012 @11:16AM
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You aren't answering the question, be specific. The article says there that "Law is everywhere in schools." Then, it lists some ways teacher-student interaction is regulated. Then, it mentions how DOE mandated scoring reorients what the teacher does.
This isn't conflating. This is showing two different ways the laws (deemed by unelected bureaucrats) affect the culture of the school.
>Right. Similarly, you don't hire a contractor, and ask him to write the spec for whatever he wants to build. He'll just cook up some easy to meet standard and report success when it's met.
This is a faulty analogy. We're not suggesting teachers just do whatever they want.
Re:To Fix America's Education Bureaucracy, We Need to Destro...
by praxeologist on Saturday April 07, 2012 @06:05PM
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Typical, a coward votes me down rather than having a counterargument.
They explicitly list both work rules and the need to satisfy minimum test scores in the 6'th and 7'th paragraph.
Yes, it would be stupid to not give a teacher or programmer instructions, but we're talking about each individual school not being able to do this, right?
Right. Similarly, you don't hire a contractor, and ask him to write the spec for whatever he wants to build. He'll just cook up some easy to meet standard and report success when it's met.