NEA Calls for Secretary Duncan's Resignation

[liberalhistorian]

27. The man has never had any business

being in that position. He has NO education degree and NO education experience; his appointment has always frustrated, puzzled and infuriated me. He drips with condescending disdain and contempt for teachers, with no clue as to what they deal with on a daily basis or why holding them accountable for factors over which they have NO control is so unfair and wrong.

And his latest bullshit regarding special education shows that, not surprising at all, he has NO clue as to the realities of special education and students with disabilities. As someone with a high IQ but a severe learning disability who's always had an issue and problem with the stupid fucking standardized tests that so many education administrators have been in love with for decades (I'm almost fifty and remember taking many of the damned things in school, although not as many as there are now, of course), and which is now spreading to infect many graduate programs as well, I REALLY REALLY resent that one-size-fits-all assumptive attitude.

The fucking tests don't demonstrate the real abilities of many with disabilities, or hell, many other intelligent, capable students. But Arne doesn't give a shit, he's just gotta bring in that extra dough for the corporate education "deform" world he's so in the pocket of and a lackey for.