President Obama: Fire failing teachers (dropout factories blamed)

Politico ^ | 9/27/10 | KENDRA MARR

[Libloather]

Wow.

[pnh102]

It is so easy for someone to say he wants to fire bad teachers when he refuses to allow for any way to measure “badness.”

[therightliveswithus]

Did he actually say something fairly intelligent!?!?!?!?!?!?!?

[BenLurkin]

Old ‘Rat trick. Talk like a normal American in the weeks running up to the election. Act like a Pinko after the election.

[goodwithagun]

Here’s the problem: According to him, I am a failing teacher. Why? Because I tell my students that the Constitution is neither living nor dead. I also refuse to consider our founders deists. My favorite activity for this is to list as many founders’ quotes about God as I can find, and then discuss the fact that our text claims they were deists. My head would be on the chopping block if obamy had a say.

[Mr. K]

Isn’t that one of the goals of the “No child left behind” act THAT THE DEMOCRAPS OBJECTED TO THE MOST????????

[dblshot]

And what happened to vouchers for the less privileged again Barry?

[ltc8k6]

He must not realize that they are in a union...

[Nachum]

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[Sybeck1]

My wife will leave teaching if she loses her summers off. She is a great first grade teacher, so its the schools stsyem’s loss.

[LaineyDee]

Where does Parental responsibility fit in anywhere? It’s been my observation that children who have disinterested parents... do very poorly. Then you have kids who just don’t care......no matter how you try to motivate them. You can’t fit a square peg in a round hole......and firing teachers doesn’t solve anything. JMHO

[1000 silverlings]

no, he probably means white teachers. White = bad in his little world

[Outlaw Woman]

Failing Teachers = Those who won’t join Unions, teach revisionist history and have moral objections to sexualizing children.

It may sound good but the concept of failing is much different in a communist’s mind.

[rrrod]

true enough..sad but 99% of public school teachers give the others a bad name...

[Colvin]

Must be election season.

[sickoflibs]

RE :””Obama did praise unions in the interview, pointing out that many are cooperating with states on education reforms. “I'm a strong supporter of the notion a union can protect its members and be a part of the solution instead of the problem,” he said. ...A Florida woman asked Obama if his daughters, Sasha and Malia, who currently attend the elite private Sidwell Friends School, would get the “same high-quality, rigorous education” at a D.C. public school. “The answer is ‘no’ right now,” Obama said. “The D.C. public school systems are struggling. They have made some important strides over the past several years to move in the direction of reform. There are some terrific individual schools in the D.C. system .... “I'll be very honest with you. Given my position, if I wanted to find a great public school for them to be in, we could probably maneuver to do it. The broader problem is that for a mom [and] dad who are working hard and who don't have a bunch of connections, don't have a lot of choice in where they live, they should be getting the same quality education for their kids as anybody else.”

How about firing failing Presidents like you loser?

I still remember one of Obama/Pelosi’s first acts was to eliminate the DC private school voucher program, basically kicking poor black kids out of his daugher’s private school. He was let completely off the hook for this outrage, I didnt hear anyone question it in the context of this interview either. It would have been a great question, “Don't you think it's hypocritical to send your daughters to private school at taxpayers expense when you kicked the poor kids out of their school?”

[17th Miss Regt]

Obama’s “Race to the Top” reforms

This simply means that in the hiring and firing of teachers, race is the top consideration.

[Carley]

LOLOL

Remember all those teachers in one school in Rhode Island that were fired.

They were all rehired.

Anyone surprised.

[Beckwith]

TELL IT TO THE TEACHERS UNION!

[Cyman]

So dropout rates are due to the “bad” teachers. Now according to my somewhat backward figurrin’, I would have guessed that was the fault of the parents. But hey, I am not a President, so what do I know.