Monday, December 1, 2008

Is this the future of education???


Michelle Rhee is making a lot of big changes in the Washington D.C. area. In her short time she has already fired over 300 teachers, principals and administrators and is making waves amongst the teacher unions.
With hopes of paying teachers in the upwards of $100,000 a year she would expect to have a higher demand on teacher accountability and also to let go of the weaker teachers. The teacher unions, ofcourse are not crazy about this and are fighting her every inch of the way.
I am watching how she's going to handle this whole situation and I don't think I'm the only one. Can you imagine how your job might change if her philosphy becomes more widespread? Would you like to work for someone as radical as this?
I hope things turn out for the best for Michelle since she is one of the most forwarded persons yet in our education system. Very little attention has been brought to education and hopefully she'll be able to start more discussions about this.

2 comments:

Natalie said...

She looks mean! They should superimpose her face with Viola Swamp from the book, Mrs. Nelson is missing but instead of scared first graders....a bunch of scared teachers

A Special Kind Of Teacher..... said...

She does look mean...Hopefully though she'll be able to turn that mess around for the better.