Posted below is an article from yesterday's Daily News about teacher evaluations written by former teacher NYC public school teacher, Alexander Nazaryan. Obviously the classroom wasn't for him and doing hack work for the Daily News, in the interest of the Dept of Ed, seems to be a perfect fit.
http://www.nydailynews.com/opinion/teacher-evaluation-faking-success-york-city-school-system-fooling-kids-article-1.1006336 Check out the comments section. This guy Alexander Nazaryan sucks
I know the attitude Nazaryan carries all too well. Back in the South Bronx, I remember brand-spranking new teachers, recent graduates from prestigious colleges, barely old enough to drink, rolling their eyes during union meetings, snubbing their noses towards veteran teachers, and believing they were the solution to a decaying system; they were often recruited to teach through Teach for America, believing wholeheartedly the dogmatic rhetoric about teacher accountability and the importance of high-stakes standardized testing advocated by so-called education reformers like Wendy Knopp (founder of Teacher for America), Mayor Bloomberg, and the reincarnation of Satan herself, former Washington DC school superintendent, Michelle Rhee.
One common trait of the teachers I worked with who shared similar views to Nazaryan was that most were born outside of the New York City metropolitan area and understood the city, not as a New Yorker, but as a cultural tourist and parasite who would write smug emails to their friends back home in the Midwest about how cool it was to watch a few black and latino kids breakdance on the subway, further solidifying the unspoken idea and belief that non-white inner-city kids had to either assilimate into the dominant American hegemony of the ruling elite, sweeping away any kind of dissent regarding social justice, or just continue living like a ghetto savage.
- The Committee
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