Response I posted to a person nitpicking on the Hawaii Teachers Work To The Rules FB page - with little coherence and heaps of ad hominem attacks that amounts to an attack on educational activists in general - Corey Rosenlees arguments against a bill that would allow public money to be funneled into private preschools: Educational activists need to work on various fronts, and from an external perspective we will all seem hyperbolic and hysterical in our demands. Where do we start? AC? Salaries? Wasteful teacher evaluation systems? Loss of professional autonomy through top-down initiatives forced upon us by non-teachers, and facilitated by those middle-management DOE personnel who at one time were teachers and who are now called school administrators? Of course theres rhetoric involved on our end as well! There has to be, when so few teachers are willing to advocate for what we as teachers believe on the basis of professional experience is right! Broad semantic strokes that are true in the main but that may be open to logical nitpicking are not the same as platitudes, which are trite or banal remarks that lack the significance they claim. Indeed, what is most disturbing about the Hawaii Department of Education is that it rarely attempts to mount counterarguments to specific, targeted criticisms that are put to it but contents itself with hanging out platitudinous banners (which, indeed, hardly ever even look like platitudes, because they hardly ever shout!) from its air-conditioned towers!
Posted on: Sun, 05 Oct 2014 20:15:17 +0000
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