Students are viewed as outcomes, products to be standardized in the factories of schooling. Adequate funding across school districts, increased teachers pay that recognizes the work of teaching, and an understanding of schools as places of learning, not sites of production, would help. Unfortunately the Governor s solutions, along with those of the state s education commissioner, William Moloney, will only compound the very real and complex problems surrounding public education. We are being duped. We are being sold a faulty bill of goods that will harm our children.
Standardized schools create thin and insipid places of learning.
Talented teachers will leave. Students will suffer. The Governor was wrong when he supported legislation that would have allowed guns in schools. Fortunately he realizes that was a mistake. But now he has legislated a harmful educational solution and he is wrong again.