The A-PLUS Act is the conservative alternative to No Child Left Behind. Heritage’s Rachel Sheffield says it would give states “greater freedom to decide how their education dollars are spent to meet their students’ needs.” Bishop, meanwhile, sees the legislation as an opportunity to put states, not the federal government, in control of education.
“It has always been the concept of a conservative alternative,” Bishop told us, “that tries to meet the needs of kids and also tries to respect the roles of government that we haven’t done so well at for seven or eight decades.”
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I’ll gladly volunteer to have my career end prematurely if it means that other “poor” teachers don’t have to endure the kangaroo court ordeal called “progressive discipline.”
I’ll slip gently into the night of an uncertain future if it means that no child will lose their status as ELL, special needs, or ethnic in order to thin the schools population of those groups to make AYP.
I’ll leave hoping to find a career where the “target” you’re trying to hit is determined before the test results are in; hoping there is a place for me where I can be a teacher again and not an educator, or a drone that trains 10 year olds on how to pass tests. Where it’s OK to care more about kids needs and less about what the test-watchers want. Where honest data might be valued in order to actually address problems, it would be a nice thing
Yes, I’ll gladly be the last victim if I knew that the dishonesty, cruelty, and idiocy would end.