Well, she just resigned. But still. The echoes from this will be felt for a long time.
So much for all the hoopla over Michelle Rhee.
The one thing that wears down a teacher is not education reform. It's the constant bombardment of it.
When I began college, 'outcome based education' was on the way out. That reform was replaced with the 'grad standards' movement. At one inservice I had a superintendent look me straight in the eye and promise, "This is not going away."
And standards, of course, are still in place, but gone are those packets we had to complete and store just in the off-chance someone would actually ever check them.
That reform led to NCLB. Now NCLB is in doubt while RTTT looms over us.
No wonder so many educators just hunker down and mutter, "This too shall pass."
For it will!
And nothing in education ever gets reformed or improved . . . unless the teachers take it upon themselves to be the change agents in their own classes. Perhaps, that is as it should be. I just wish more would rise up and do that and that the press and film makers would show more of that.
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