Must Read: A retired teacher talks about Teacher evaluations

http://theimmoralminority.blogspot.com/2015/06/this-huffington-post-article-from.html

Courtesy of HuffPo:

Ostensibly, the policy of evaluating teachers on their students' performance is designed to improve public schools by holding teachers accountable. However, by refusing to take into account several factors which impede student learning and over which teachers have no control, this policy is, in essence, a punitive measure, a political weapon, a pre-emptive strike against teachers, intended to demoralize and drive them out of the teaching profession. 

Moreover, when linked to merit pay, a divide-and-conquer strategy to pit teacher against teacher, this evaluation attempts to destabilize and weaken the National Education Association (NEA), the nation's largest labor union with its three million members, a development not unwelcome to corporate America. 

Why has this happened? Connect the dots: 

(1) Every year hundreds of billions in federal, state and local tax revenue support America's public schools and their teachers. 

(2) How divert those billions into the hands of privatizers, charter schools, and their corporate sponsors?