At the superintendent meeting tonight the various groups were asked to pick qualities that they would like to see in the next superintendent. At the table reserved for local politicians, they said they preferred a business leader, somebody who could run a great organization, not necessarily an education expert.
The parent table on the other hand said they specifically wanted somebody who had been in a classroom and as a response to the politicians, one parent said, her children were not business products.
It is no surprise that the politicians were once again dismissing the value of educators as they have been doing so for quite some time. They want to employ business solutions such as vouchers, charter schools, merit pay and high stakes testing and this despite there is no evidence saying they work. To them it makes business sense, the problem is schools aren’t businesses.
Let me ask you a question, Florida’s state politicians have been trying to run the state like a business for quite some time now, how do you think they are doing?
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