Sunday, April 6, 2008

please seduce this teacher . . .

. . . so he commits a felony and gets fired. He teaches calculus in DCPS, at the school where the smartest kids go. He does not fully understand the order of operations, and he does not know what is on the College Board syllabus. He makes the students do long anti-differentiation problems by hand but does not look at the steps toward solution. He is just plain lazy, but he has taught for years and has tenure. There is no moving this teacher to some other career.

As a citizen I am outraged the girl I tutor has this teacher. I hope Michelle Rhee can eventually get some qualified young grads to come in and teach math adequately, and I hope we can have lots more accountability for these deadweight teachers.

1 Comments:

At April 7, 2008 at 7:49 AM , Anonymous Anonymous said...

I am so with you on this one! Did you see the piece on The News Hour last week about the DC schools, 50% of the teachers are not able to do their jobs...

 

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