Michelle Rhee: Do as I Say, Not as I Do? (public schools, scores)

[Member1]

Do as I say, not as I do: Michelle Rhee and the public education paradox | Money | theguardian.com

[maf763]

Not a surprise. This is what charlatans do.

[zthatzmanz28]

I love her talks about raising test scores...

So if we follow her advise, it would look like this---

Michelle Rhee raised test scores by CHEATING

So we should raise test scores without CHEATING?

[marie5v]

Disgusting. Thank you to the poster above for the word Charlatan. More descriptive words would probably result in post deletion.

[jtab4994]

Every politician sends their kids to private school, even the ones who support the unions and say public schools are just hunky-dory.

[psikeyhackr]

Why is that a paradox?

If the public schools need fixing why waste your own children's time until they are fixed?

Of course that does not necessarily mean she knows how they should be fixed.

psik

[Starman71]

Originally Posted by psikeyhackr

Why is that a paradox?

If the public schools need fixing why waste your own children's time until they are fixed?

Of course that does not necessarily mean she knows how they should be fixed.

psik

It's not so much a paradox as it is a lie.

When she tells the media that her daughter goes to public schools when she doesn't, that's called a lie.

When she advocates for more standardized testing but pays $22K/yr for a school that doesn't use it, that's called hypocrisy.

The list could go on for a while... Should I continue?

[Clevelander17]

Originally Posted by psikeyhackr

Why is that a paradox?

If the public schools need fixing why waste your own children's time until they are fixed?

Uh, no, the problem here is that Rhee and many others have already had the power to completely remake hundreds of schools as they see fit, so the option to send their kids to such "fixed" schools does indeed exist.

[psikeyhackr]

Originally Posted by Clevelander17

Uh, no, the problem here is that Rhee and many others have already had the power to completely remake hundreds of schools as they see fit, so the option to send their kids to such "fixed" schools does indeed exist.

Did she claim to have "fixed" some schools?

My suspicion is that no one can fix them because so many different people have different ideas about what that is. So no one ever has enough power to implement their "fix", regardless of whether or not it really works.

I am not so sure the private schools are so great. Just expensive and exclusive of a certain "element".

psik

[Momma_bear]

Originally Posted by psikeyhackr

......exclusive of a certain "element".

This is exactly the reason to send your kids to private schools. At private schools they rarely have to deal with kids whose entire existence seems to revolve around being disruptive. Disruptive students are removed from the school. It doesn't make the teachers better or worse than public school teachers but it does provide a better learning atmosphere.