Insulted again

They wrote: "If you could make all the teachers as good as the top quarter, the U.S. would soar to the top ... So can you find the way to capture what the really good teachers are doing?" - Bill Gates in Newsweek.

"Football teams do this all the time." - Randi Weingarten, president of the American Federation of Teachers, in Newsweek.
Our comments: Many of us have no patience with even mediocre football coaches before a change is made. Why do we have so much more patience with fair-to-poor schooling?

I have three questions for the editors of the TU, my first two are; What do you propose we do times union, and couldn’t we use this same argument with any profession, including ignorant newspaper editors.

At this point the Times Union have gone from ridiculous to embarrassing. They should put on the mastiff, we hate teachers. Why not be honest?

My last question is, do you (the TU editors) really believe teachers as a group are horrible or the number one problem facing education or are you just trying to curry favor with the rich and powerful, the flavor of the moment. If it is the former back up what you say with some facts and if it is the later which is what nobody with with any knowledge about education agrees with (hello poverty, destroying creativity and initiative, wrecking discipline, teachers being forced to pass kids without the skills they need and one size fits all curriculum) then admit it because you not doing so is doing all of society a disservice.

Hi, mu name is TU editor, I hate kids and teachers, please buy my paper.

sick

Chris Guerrieri
School Teacher