tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1628172601886929098.post7028928685852698621..comments2024-03-29T03:15:56.828-04:00Comments on Perdido Street School: Cuomo Backs Appeal Process For APPR Teracher Evaluation Systemreality-based educatorhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01712885202661371924noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1628172601886929098.post-4075554616501546732015-09-17T22:52:50.129-04:002015-09-17T22:52:50.129-04:00What if districts refuse to fire teachers based o...What if districts refuse to fire teachers based on flawed appr? Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1628172601886929098.post-77750241830109808022015-09-16T21:43:01.044-04:002015-09-16T21:43:01.044-04:00I know its intriguing and really hopeful to hear t...I know its intriguing and really hopeful to hear that Cuomo is now ok with an appeals process. I'm sure NYSUT, if they mention anything, will declare some kind of victory. <br /><br />However, we mustn't think this has any more meaning than exactly what was said....he's ok with an appeals process. Thats all. Cuomo said nothing about what that appeal would look like, who would hear the appeals, who would qualify for appeals, what the appeals could result in, etc etc etc. <br /><br />I think its important to realize that Cuomo saying this is most likely him saying nothing at all. All he is doing is working to keep his system alive right now so it can move forward and continue on its mission to start dropping teachers (especially Tier 4 folks) out of the profession. <br /><br />Part of me is actively thinking that perhaps we should be AGAINST this "tweak." Maybe we should push to hold them to this disaster so when it falls it makes a big noise. All of these tweaks will do nothing but enable this system to last longer, ding more people up along the way, and become entrenched as a new normal not only for state Ed folks, but also for teachers. Thats the thing I really worry about....the tacit acceptance of really awful things over time. Perhaps it should be as nasty and harsh as advertised so that we don't become the proverbial boiled frogs, and it crashes hard and then becomes a monument to teachers as what bad looks like. All these tweaks and bandaids will only serve to keep the thing alive until the next reformer awfulness comes down the pike that is worse or gives it a new lease on life. <br /><br />Cuomo is thinking that if he can keep the basic architecture of the teacher eval alive and moving forward, he can move towards the whole spirit of the thing in time (that spirit being destroying a profession). A tactical-rhetorical retreat in being ok with appeals does that. I'm not so sure we should applaud it. I know for sure that we shouldn't have any hope that reason is entering the picture, as it certainly is not. I think it may be a moment for doing the counter-intuitive thing here.....say no the appeals. Push back on it. Call it out. Say no. Lets do this evaluation as advertised. Really. Lets do it. Lets say we are doing it. No modifications. No deals. Lets do it. Lets have balls. We all know its a disaster on wheels. Lets run the fucking thing into the wall. Lets let them own it for a change. The tweaks and bandaids are all about softening the blow. Lets not let that happen. <br />Fuck the appeals. I don't want an appeals process. I want them to try to chop my head off with this hatchet without a handle. Fools only respond to being exposed as fools.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com