Well said.
When teachers lost due process, they also lost their voice. Instead of seeing us as advocates, admins label us as troublemakers.
It is never what Weingarten says but what she does. Her eloquence, thoughtfulness and intelligence pales in comparison to her actions. When she writes "these are things that cannot be delivered in canned programs" how does that dovetail with her advocacy and support for Success for All, a total canned program?
Or when she says "or assessed on a multiple choice, machine readable test" how did she and her Unity caucus respond when I and others raised the issue at Delegate Assemblies as far back as 1997?
This is all just PR to prepare her credentials for the national stage.
The uFT has been one of the forces along with the AFT in pushing for these type of testing programs as witness the fact of their involvment in the NCLB laws (which the NEA at least opposed from the start.)
I thought when you "blogged" people could comment on what you wrote?
What's fascinating to me is how long-winded she is. There's more content in her last three blog posts than I've done this year.
Long winded isn't the word. I found my eyes crossing halfway through the first post.
You had to know she wouldn't allow comments - because we would be filling it with loads of anti-Unity, anti- HER sentiment, and she damn well knows it.
You're so right about blogging without comments.
And how do you know she even wrote that stuff?
Have you ever thought of Randi Weingarten as an "educator," or in recent years, even as a defender of educators?
Let her first get back what she so consummately lost for us, then we can listen to her pretty speeches.
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