[Pen-l] Let's Play Blame the Teacher

[Michael Perelman <michael@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

California keeps cutting billions of dollars from education. The real problem is the 
teacher's union, yeah? So the answer is a simple prescription of multiple doses of 
multiple choice tests.

The rationale of these tests takes me back a few decades to the Cold War when 
proponents of the free market used to ridicule Soviet planning techniques. These 
same people sometimes referred to a cartoon from the Soviet humor magazine Krokodil 
showing a nail factory which had fulfilled its output plan by producing one single 
nail, the size of the plant.

Screwing up nails is bad; screwing up kids is inexcusable. Blaming the teacher's 
union, while refusing to raise sufficient taxes to support the educational system 
and the educators -- that's easy.


-- 
Michael Perelman
Economics Department
California State University
Chico, CA 95929

Tel. 530-898-5321
E-Mail michael at ecst.csuchico.edu
michaelperelman.wordpress.com
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