This is so similar to Wilmington, DE it’s scary. These two cities are so close to each other, it would be very ironic if both cities chose to do this task. What would be greater is if every single parent in Delaware woke up from the bizarre dream that is Common Core and decided this for themselves.
You can’t do that.
All the fear, frustration and mounting rage of public school teachers amounts to that short declarative sentence.
You can’t take away our autonomy in the classroom.
You can’t take away our input into academic decisions.
You can’t take away our job protections and collective bargaining rights.
You can’t do that.
But the state and federal government has repeatedly replied in the affirmative – oh, yes, we can.
For at least two decades, federal and state education policy has been a sometimes slow and incremental chipping away at teachers’ power and authority – or at others a blitzkrieg wiping away decades of long-standing best practices.
The latest and greatest of these has been in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.
Earlier this week, the state-led School Reform Commission simply refused to continue bargaining with teachers over a new labor agreement. Instead, members unilaterally cancelled Philadelphia teachers contract and dictated their own…
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