Visit: Kids Aren't Cars
When the auto assembly line model was brought into American public schools, it was an achievement of efficiency, but it has now produced its consequences. Organized labor, too, has made its mark in creating a one-size-fits-all way for treating and compensating teachers.
"It's time to admit that public education operates like a planned economy, a bureaucratic system in which everybody's role is spelled out in advance and there are few incentives for innovation and productivity. It's no surprise that our school system doesn't improve: It more resembles the communist economy than our own market economy." - Albert Shanker
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They aren't? All I learned at least at my first teaching job was that they were. I was asked "where did you learn to teach?" in a snotty tone, when I tried to treat my students as gasp people.
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