So why, why why why...........
Then, it dawned on me.
The whole point of the Third Grade Reading Guarantee is to dismantle the teacher's union in Ohio.
It isn't about reading at all. It's about the fact that this union is a powerful political enemy of our current governor.
Look at the law; it supersedes the teachers bargaining agreement. They have no union protection with this law. (Remember charter schools don't have unions).
Additionally, if they are named "ineffective" they are going to have to train at their own expense.
Let me say that again, teachers in public schools are going to have to pay to train if their students cant pass a test. As if that Master's degree wasn't enough.
Teachers, especially in poorer areas have now been set up to fail. How insidious.
The African American community is already leaving the public school in droves. The Charter schools and online schools are taking more kids all the time. There is very little accountability there to the taxpayers. Still Charter schools are subject to this law but really it wont hurt those teachers much now will it?
Still the student population leaving the public schools (the numbers are down) that's only the first blow.
The second (larger) blow is they just lost union protection with this law. It's in there. The power play. Nicely hidden but it's in there. Read the law and you'll find it.
Back to the reading/testing piece:
I can assure you that plenty of Catholic school kids with dyslexia are getting through school barely able to read and in some cases not able to read at all. That's not widely known unless you are a parent in a Catholic school and you can see that there are families struggling with the way reading is taught or should I say not taught. If Catholic schools were subjected to the testing everyone would be able to see this. But they aren't. Completely exempt from any of this. Same with private schools.
So really the target of all of this has been the public teacher union.
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