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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote]That's why Michelle Rhee's massive fire and hire campaign was short-sighted. Not that one shouldn't get rid of bad teachers but that the school system needs to work on more anti-poverty measures in addition to hiring great teachers.[/quote]

This is one of the things I could never understand about the vehemency of the anti-Rhee folks.  As you say, "not that one shouldn't get rid of bad teachers but that the school system needs to work on more anti-poverty measures in addition to hiring great teachers."  Rhee was obviously engaged in the hiring / firing (we can argue about how successfully).

So the critique was often, what? That she wasn't implementing enough anti-poverty measures?  Tough to do as the DCPS chancellor.[/quote]Okay, I should have added that in some cases she did the "hiring and firing" [i]badly[/i].  She was not a competent manager.  And one of her blind spots was that [i]simply[/i] hiring determined, bright-eyed young people could somehow raise test scores -- especially when she threw some people into principal positions in schools where they were overwhelmed.  Not a problem for Rhee, she just fired them.  But the question then is [i]who[/i] will you hire to take their place?  Who would want to take the risk that they would be hung out to dry like that?[/quote]

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