Today, Obama admin all but admitted it is a right wing, teacher-union busting admin

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114. God damn all teacher haters. The public had better commit to them if they want commitment from them.

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PRINCIPALS are responsible for choosing which teachers get tenure and which don't. These students should have sued the principals' associations. PRINCIPALS keep getting the pass, when they and only they are the instructional leaders, teacher hirers and professional developers in the field. PRINCIPALS should be judged, not the field professionals they lead. Principals have ducked into political alliances with big business for too damned long. They constantly sell out the training and autonomy of their field professionals, the very foundation of good public education.

Tenure keeps the classroom from being blown about by political winds. As scholars of their communities, teachers who show exceptional competence and commit to building the human resources of their communities should be protected from local politics. For states to abolish tenure is to abolish adult commitment to competent long term instruction across generations of students. This is such a political move against children -- who can't vote -- that I'm hereby done with any and all leadership in education. These kids were not representative of public school children taught by tenured teachers. They were politically manipulated. The only allies of children left are teachers and their parent constituents. That alliance, already weak, will now be effectively killed off with this precedent.

ARNE DUNCAN KNOWS NOTHING ABOUT DEVELOPING GOOD EDUCATION IN AMERICA.