| I look forward to a blog post at MichCapCon outlining how this is only because the MEA is because tenure once made it difficult to fire bad teachers. On the first day of school last year, Kerry Bentivolio told students in his English class at Fowlerville High School that he had one goal: to make each one of them cry at least once. Bentivolio, now the Republican candidate in Michigan's 11th Congressional District -- which includes western Wayne and Oakland counties -- also told the students that they were "just a paycheck to me," according to a description of incidents in his personnel file.
If you read through the whole thing and are capable of understanding, it tells you the entire line of argument behind tenure reform is utter horseshit. Here was a lousy teacher -- now the Republican candidate for Congress in Thad McCotter's old district -- who hated his job, and was ultimately bounced from it because of pressure placed on him to improve his performance. And, by the way, making education about competition for dollars won't make this go away, it'll make it so that every child is a paycheck for an educator, and only the best will look past that for the good of a child's education. By the way, it says that Nancy Cassis said she'd drop out of the special primary election if she lost her write-in bid. You know, that's the election that will cost a bunch of money that municipalities don't really have and m for two weeks? The article says she's still a candidate. |
