In an interview with PBS...
Q: What can we do to help improve our nation's schools?
McCourt: One of the reasons the schools are in such a state is no one consults the teachers. I used to watch some of these programs on television and you'd have somebody from some corporation, and you'd see some jerk from the think tank, and then you'd have a union official, and I'd call... One time I called Channel 13 in New York, they had one of these discussions about schools, and I said -- they were inviting us, calls from the outside -- and the lady said, "Well what would your question be?" And I said, "Why don't you have a teacher on this panel?" "Oh, that's a very interesting question..." I said, "It's about schools, isn't it?" "Yes." But I never got through. One never gets through."
Read the whole interview http://www.pbs.org/onlyateacher/today8.html
2 comments:
No one consults us because no one wants to hear what we have to say. To listen to us would be an admission of their cluelessness.
I know. McCourt should hold a press conference with Dianne Ravitch and others and just speak out. He, in particular, is such a popular figure, it would be interesting to see if Obama was moved.
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