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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I am an ivy league phd who went into teaching.  Your plan will never work, because under the current system no one who is intelligent, passionate, creative, and has a stellar education can survive in public school teaching.  Administrators micromanage and treat teachers like children.  Critical thinking and questioning are forbidden, and many teachers don't have any voice in anything of import, from textbooks and curriculum to classroom management systems.  We might as well be robots.  Certainly we have no opportunity to use anything we have learned.  Districts and governments enact policies so stupid and nonsensical that having to enforce them leaves one feeling like good teaching is done in spite of "school reform," not because of it.

The problem is not lack of education of teachers; it's that independent thought, expertise, and education are just not valued or encouraged in our current system.  The teachers who graduate from your program will last a couple of years at best.[/quote]

Really? Which school and at what grade did you have this horrible experience?  What was your PhD in?  [/quote]

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