Posted on 04/03/2009 8:53:17 AM PDT by AreaMan
They come from places like Harvard, Yale, and Brown, inspired to share their energy and knowledge with public school children.
But the Boston Teachers Union has a message for those eager Teach for America recruits: Thanks, but no thanks.
With the first batch of 20 corps members scheduled to arrive in the fall, just months after probable teacher layoffs, the union has sent a letter to the popular program objecting to its help.
"We already have hundreds of good, 'surplus' teachers; we don't need [Teach for America] to provide us any additional help," Richard Stutman, the union's president, wrote in a letter sent this week. "By coming here, you will only make matters worse."
(Excerpt) Read more at boston.com ...
“We already have hundreds of good, ‘surplus’ teachers; we don’t need”
And, please don’t send anyone competent lest we look bad by comparison.
Look for “duh” union label in your classrooms kids ...
But there’s good news for the teachers.
Since the district receives federal money for some programs, such as the school lunch program and No Child Left Behind, they’ll be obligated by law to take on the responsibility of “hosting” the “volunteers” sitting in each classroom. The “volunteers” will then report their findings to a “federal oversight board” about which teachers are “effective” based on a “rubric” of “acceptable behaviors and norms” using modern leftist thinking as their baseline.
And if you don’t like it, you’re in favor of starving the children, and the Boston Globe will smear your name from Provincetown to the Berkshires.
Just my tin-hat imaginings.
And how is the “Public Service Corps” is going to be vastly different?
They may not be, but I thought it was amusing to note yet again how the teacher’s union is not interested in providing the best education possible to the children.
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