Saturday, June 11, 2011

Evaluation "forums" now approaching farce

fo·rum/ˈfôrəm/Noun

1. A meeting or medium where ideas and views on a particular issue can be exchanged.
Key word there: exchanged.
Read the letter Jim Horn was sent from someone attending the so-called "forum" and see if there's much "exchanging" going on.
We should therefore expect to see a lovely presentation with colorful charts at the next Board of Ed meeting, representing that "X percent of teachers favor being evaluated by Y" and so forth, when of course this is a gross misrepresentation of what anyone sitting there may think.

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