Our national obsession with high stakes testing fortifies the pipeline as teachers, under-supported and over-prescribed, are incentivized to drive out "problem" students whose low test scores and misbehavior drain the classroom enterprise.
Though she gives occasional lectures, she said that a return to the classroom would be "emotionally draining".
The school, they asserted, would drain public classrooms of some of the smartest students while saddling neighbors with another outgrowth of the campus.
While Mr. Giuliani is pushing for teachers to teach more, Ms. Weingarten said that more time in the classroom would be so draining as to be counterproductive.
At the end of the day, it's beyond well deserved … When they leave that classroom and they're being drained, they can know that the board did everything possible to compensate them to the best of our ability".
Every teacher should be free to create such schools, without politicians and bureaucrats draining away badly needed classroom funding and micromanaging the curriculum, not to mention the teachers' every move.
As Tuck's Professor Danos explains, the cost of a "reverse brain drain" will be borne by American students enduring a poorer classroom environment, a less dynamic campus and, eventually, fewer jobs in America.
Tearing down a tax-paying house and erecting a tax-exempt institution, a two-story building that will have 18 classrooms for a weekend school and 78 parking spaces, would be a drain on taxes, the argument goes.
And if this were not enough, we have created scores of new private schools, both secular and religious; resulting in a student brain drain which has lowered what constitutes excellence in our public school classrooms.
"I started a cricket team there, but the sheer energy you had to put in managing the classroom, helping the children in the playground or at lunchtime, it was emotionally and physically draining".
