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VORMATH went straight to the horses mouth. They contacted The Star Ledger regarding the “RANK school performance” tool.
The Star Ledger did some minor tweaks to their tool. It is a rank. It is in list format. And it still shows Travell lagging the other elementary schools in the Ridgewood District.
Way to go math moms.
>Targeting the teachers is like asking the lettuce pickers to speak up individually. ICE will have them out of here in a flash. Now, the Teacher’s Union should have spoken up a long time ago. Why haven’t they? They must have a vested interest to remain silent. I wonder what it might be?
>”They must have a vested interest to remain silent. I wonder what it might be?”
Good question. Anybody have a thought on this?
>MMMM 7:47, JOB SECURITY
>Job security for a union president? Nah, I don’t think that the reason why they are so closed mouthed. Wouldn’t the State NEA back them up? Or does the NJNEA have a vested interest in programs like TERC? We can also ask, does the NEA have a vested interest in programs like TERC? Maybe so. A woman’s organization, dominated by women, pushing women’s agendas? Maybe they’ve all lost sight of the fact that they exist to educate all children. Their charter is not to socially re-engineer school systems to the radical feminists liking. Is it? It’s to teach all of our children so that they can be all that they may be. Nothing more, nothing less.
>The problem is if you’re say a 5th grade teacher and you make waves, the principal can put you down into lst grade the next year even if you have been teaching 5th for 20 years. There are ways for school officials to make a teacher’s life hell.
>”The problem is if you’re say a 5th grade teacher and you make waves, the principal can put you down into lst grade the next year even if you have been teaching 5th for 20 years. There are ways for school officials to make a teacher’s life hell.”
How vindictive. Teachers put up with that? It’s no wonder there’s so much tension around this thing. I feel bad for the teachers caught in the math wars.
But it makes me crazy that the administrators love to say see your teacher if you have a problem with the math. The teacher is then supposed to quietly band-aid whatever happens to be wrong only for your kid, and never admit there’s something wrong with the curriculum? This is absurd.
>And we know who put these Principals in office – The BOE of course. So one must assume that they are the generals in the trenches who are required to push through any and all of the BOE’s directives, as misguided as they might be.