Jenny Sedlis, once sidekick of Eva Moskowitz, and current head of Students First NY, must surely be a master teacher given how much she has to say on the subject. When she heard Cuomo delayed the firing of teachers counted as ineffective based on Common-Core tests, she said, "The two-year safety net that will allow ineffective teachers to remain in the classroom regardless of how their children perform on state tests is wrong-headed. This safety net opens the door to dismantling the whole evaluation system." Would that it were so! I am not my students' test scores, let alone any Common-Core test score, concocted to fail 70% of New York's student body. Students are not that score either.
Although I can't find any positive information that Sedlis ever taught much in her life, let alone in a NY City public school, she's obviously worked long enough to figure out that master teachers live to prep to tests and enjoy shouldering the blame for the low test scores of kids working in overcrowded and underfunded schools, sometimes the kind of kids the Success Academy "kicks out."
Here, to the right, is a self-proclaimed master teacher of three years, Michelle Rhee. Let's release this "master teacher" into a classroom of thirty, grossly underfunded kids, some of whom may live in poverty, struggle with learning disabilities and/or language deficiencies. We all know the real issue is the teacher, any other conditions are besides the point!
This time around, Rhee will have no co-teacher. Let's turn this scenario into a reality show. Stream it live. Let the world see how well she does and share in her golden success and reams of pristine data. Should she falter, then let's give her that extra edge by sending a bee into the equation. Sit back and watch her shine with her special brand of magic, hopefully minus the masking tape....
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