Klein Belongs in Jail

NYC Schools Chancellor Joel Klein was hired for one reason: not to improve PUBLIC schools but to open as many CHARTER schools as possible. How else do you explain a noneducator who never had an ounce of interest in education being hired to be CHANCELLOR OF PUBLIC SCHOOLS??? Where else would this have been acceptable? Notice how he paid a world of attention to charter schools and their operators, i.e. Eva Moskowitz and Whitney Tilson among others.

Klein belongs in JAIL for knowingly neglecting our public school system in order to PRIVATIZE our schools. He didn't listen when educators were screaming that his policies and "reforms" weren't working. Neither did Bloomberg.

Now after all that time wasted, money spent and worst of all over a million students CHEATED out of a decent well-rounded education, we are nowhere.

Wait! We've gotten somewhere. We've got a weaker school system, courtesy of the vast numbers of inept administrators that are running many schools into the ground. We've got less senior teachers who were an enormous asset to the system and not the burden which is what Klein would have you believe. We've got teachers signing on to teach for two-year terms and leaving thanks to programs like "Teach for America". We've got substandard curriculums(Teacher's College & Everyday Math) plaguing many of the schools here. We've got schools buildings loaded with rookie teachers. We've got communities being destabilized by the loss of their local public schools in order to accomodate charter operators. We've got public schools forced to share space with charters causing much grief at those schools for parents, teachers & students. We've got testing-factories for schools now. Superintendents with no real power. No one to turn to if the school's principal is doing a poor job. I could go on and on...
Yeah, we've gotten somewhere.....in a mess.

I really wish the papers would FINALLY start reporting what educators have been saying all along. They have somewhat, but not enough.`