The article "Media Leader Tapped to Head N.Y.C. Schools" really got my "goat". The notion that any business leader is somehow magically qualified to run a major city school system is just arrogant. Schools aren't just another business. If you don't have an intimate knowledge of the school system gained through going through the ranks of being a teacher and an administrator, I don't think you have any business running a school system.
This is in response to an advertisement in this issue: Speaking to the issues: Creating remedial tracks for"the Good of the Kids" I think the writer "hit it on the head" when he said that if you are going to eliminate remedial classes that you have to "provide students with intensive intervention and support instead. But just dumping remedial students into a regular classroom without that does a disservice to the teacher, those students, and the rest of the students. Students that are clearly behind the level of other students in a class aren't just going to catch up by "osmosis". And to expect that a teacher is just magically come up with the extra time to service their needs without help is just another recipe for failure.
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