tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1628172601886929098.post8860044743872632432..comments2024-03-28T08:55:53.818-04:00Comments on Perdido Street School: Time To Thank Andrew Cuomo For His "Monumental Gaffe" That The Common Core Tests Are "Meaningless"reality-based educatorhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01712885202661371924noreply@blogger.comBlogger9125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1628172601886929098.post-79025209781974674102015-09-14T09:51:24.446-04:002015-09-14T09:51:24.446-04:00When politicians and education "experts"...When politicians and education "experts" get too involved in actual education, they screw it up. Many of the kids that take this test do not put forth any effort. How accurate are the results when the kids know the test results--for them--are meaningless.? How silly are the adults who think kids are going to try their best on a test that does not affect their course grade, graduation, college application, grade level promotion, etc.? Why would a kid struggle for hours on a difficult test that essentially we are asking them to take for the fun of it?Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1628172601886929098.post-83959390641048648792015-04-26T15:58:43.485-04:002015-04-26T15:58:43.485-04:00They are practice for the affordable housing that ...They are practice for the affordable housing that they are never going to get after their rent-stabilized units are bulldozed! <br />They are practice for the taxes they will pay into the billionaire's pockets since they will control everything from housing to schooling to employment!<br />And remember, "Only the little people pay taxes" by the late Leona Helmsley. Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1628172601886929098.post-21196855035439667782015-04-26T11:50:27.360-04:002015-04-26T11:50:27.360-04:00Our Reptilian Governor is absolutely right, the te...Our Reptilian Governor is absolutely right, the tests are "practice" for the kids.<br /><br />They are "practice" for the largely meaningless, tedium-filled, poverty wage jobs they are being trained for.<br /><br />They are "practice" for the powerlessness they will experience in the workplace, where their rights, needs, ideas, insights and feelings are ignored.<br /><br />They are "practice" for the collective obedience they will be expected to show clueless managers in the future, whereby they'll be expected to enthusiastically support every half-baked panacea and business fad that comes along. When one is thrown onto the trash heap, they'll be expected to immediately forget about it, and accept the new one as Holy Writ, as the embarrassing Michael Mulgrew continually tells us to do with each new teacher evaluation scheme.<br /><br />They are "practice" for being passive data sets for remote oversight by a small group of people seeking to watch and, hopefully, monetize everything about them.<br /><br />So, you see, our Reptilian Governor is absolutely right, the tests are important "practice" for training kids to accept being treated in the future with the same contempt and disregard that their teachers currently are... Michael Fiorillonoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1628172601886929098.post-34964171066924653282015-04-26T11:43:19.817-04:002015-04-26T11:43:19.817-04:00NYSUT should come out swinging on this. Why would ...NYSUT should come out swinging on this. Why would teachers agree to any form of evaluation that the Governor deems "meaningless?" Insubordination my foot. If all teachers will now stand up to this, we might get somewhere. Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1628172601886929098.post-20592724262580964572015-04-26T11:29:49.003-04:002015-04-26T11:29:49.003-04:00now that the students believe the tests are meanin...now that the students believe the tests are meaningless to them most will not care at all, especially at the middle school level, and just fill in the circles. why bother even reading it. teachers are royally screwed now!!! thanks Cuomo for telling students the tests don't count!!!!!Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1628172601886929098.post-35634479465043950212015-04-26T09:52:32.142-04:002015-04-26T09:52:32.142-04:00Thank God there are journalists in New York State ...Thank God there are journalists in New York State who still have some backbone and are willing to stand up to Cuomo and the corporate puppet masters who are pulling his strings.<br /><br />I'd like to buy Fred LeBrun a drink. In fact, two drinks.<br /><br />And, note to all the teacher-hating journalists out there: the Wall Street 1%ers who want to take down public schools are also after YOU. They are looking to buy up what's left of the independent thinking media and put you all on a very short leash, too -if they haven't already! <br /><br />Teachers and journalists are on the SAME SIDE. It's about the Bill of Rights. <br /> -John OgozalekAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1628172601886929098.post-57978037782957905272015-04-26T09:51:47.544-04:002015-04-26T09:51:47.544-04:00Our government officials are partners with the bil...Our government officials are partners with the billionaires. Together they are trying to reshape our country into their own personal playground. Public Education is only one of their targets. The picture is much bigger than that. Cuomo made a Freudian slip and basically proved beyond a reasonable doubt what hundreds of thousands of people obviously already knew. Sending him to prison is not good enough by a long shot. I'd like to see the kind of action in Albany that they are having in Baltimore or Ferguson. Our government officials have become despots. He couldn't get this far without his entire corrupted crew. They ALL have to go. Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1628172601886929098.post-71780077146164482832015-04-26T09:24:22.343-04:002015-04-26T09:24:22.343-04:00Thank you Mr Cuomo...for showing us all, that whic...Thank you Mr Cuomo...for showing us all, that which most of us knew already, the scam in education that you have rammed down the throats of the people of New York.<br /><br />We have had enough, both of the systematic and harmful attacks on public education...and we have had enough of you.<br /><br />This New Yorker, an educator, and a parent, looks forward to the day when you are thrown into a prison cell, never to see the light of day again.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1628172601886929098.post-3369438464012891042015-04-26T08:58:57.748-04:002015-04-26T08:58:57.748-04:00Now Cuomo has the duty and responsibility to tell ...Now Cuomo has the duty and responsibility to tell the people of New York why Common Core exams are "meaningless" for our students (we already know they they are junk piled onto junk), but can result in the firing of teachers and closings of our public schools.<br /><br />Mr Cuomo...the lawsuits, just starting with "wrongful termination" are just around the corner. The entire agenda of the privatization movement is an abomination, that you continue to sell the people of New York out for your own personal gain and profit.<br /><br />You are as far from a publicly elected statesman as possible...and you will be treated like the slime you truly are.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com