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State team set for big R2T show
Written by Todd Engdahl on Mar 12th, 2010. | Copyright © EdNewsColorado.org
Once again, so-called reformers will meet and decide the future of K-12 education without the meaningful input of regular classroom teachers, parents or students. The “reformers” are apparently adherents to the fallacious belief that “reform” should be dictated by administrators to teachers, that testing is supreme and that programmed instruction is more intellectually challenging than teaching students to think analytically. Lt. Gov. Barbara O’Brien’s assertion today in the Denver Post that children adapt to new conditions with more ease than adults reveals this same flawed thinking. She apparently isn’t aware that students at Manual and North High Schools in Denver were traumatized when those schools were reorganized and familiar and trusted teachers arbitrarily reassigned. When chaos and stagnation resulted at North, the district administrators simply ignored the sorry results and continue to do so. So, Lt. Gov. O’Brien, please explain again how easily students can adapt to chaotic conditions?