doubleplusundead

August 16, 2010

Don't worry LA Times, the fun's only starting

The LA Times made the error of daring to speak out against a branch of the liberal Sturmabteilung, in this case the LA teacher union, thus far the union is only calling for a boycott of the LA Times, which will prove ineffective, because precious few actually read the LA Times. Just wait till the union thugs start beating you Times guys in the streets like they do Tea Partiers, then the real fun begins! But anyway, here's the line that matters in the Times' editorial,

"You're leading people in a dangerous direction, making it seem like you can judge the quality of a teacher by … a test," said A.J. Duffy, president of United Teachers Los Angeles, which has more than 40,000 members.

So...much...FAIL...

Posted by: doubleplusundead at 10:52 AM | Comments (4) | Add Comment
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1 Heaven forbid teachers should have to live up to measurable standards like, oh, the rest of the world.

Posted by: Alice H at August 16, 2010 11:24 AM (qJHYy)

2 Yeah, but dude, teachers bitching about being judged with a test? WTF?!?

Posted by: doubleplusundead at August 16, 2010 11:52 AM (Sde12)

They're just bitching about being judged, the means matters not.

How dare you question them?

They've dedicated their lives to Teh Children^(tm).

They're better than you.

Posted by: Veeshir at August 16, 2010 11:58 AM (aFnZ8)

4 It's really difficult to do standardized testing well, so I can appreciate that it makes some people nervous. Especially when that test might be created by people with no knowledge or training in that particular skill. *cough* That said, the people that design tests like the GMAT and the LSAT have a rather good track record at predicting things like student performance at grad school based on test scores. Performance testing at work is a well-established discipline (Google performance testing sometime). Obviously it can be done. So to sum up ... fears about implementation are warranted (if painfully ironic) but that's no good reason to eschew testing altogether ... it's just a good reason to do it well. All that said, who else thinks that a private school acting with it's own resource in mind could do a vastly superior job at created a test targeted to assess their own teachers (or at least identify and use a decent consultant)?

Posted by: TheUnrepentantGeek at August 16, 2010 05:12 PM (Dz5CW)

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