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Its defenders say it raises awareness of a vital social issue: teachers who sexually prey on schoolgirls.
But tests are not the only issue teachers are preparing to fight over this week and next.
After most school administrators blocked my access to the classroom due to the controversial nature of the issue, teachers turned my attention to the debates happening on the State Board of Education.
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No one has even begun to address Mr. Duncan's "fantastic" versus "mediocre" issue —teacher layoffs here are based on seniority rather than merit.
We can imagine swarms of terrorists charging ashore off the Dover ferry, but it would make more sense putting Dad's Army back in uniform and issuing teachers with machine guns.
A spokesman for the Department for Education said: "We know that unnecessary workload is one of the biggest frustrations for teachers and are working with the profession and education experts to take action of the root causes of preventable workload including looking in more depth at the three issues teachers raised – marking, data management and planning and resources".
It focuses on three issues: teachers' restricted understandings of assessment, teachers' emphasis on criteria that demonstrate concern with social control, and some of the problems connected with peer assessment.
"No teacher will want to damage relationships with the school community within which they work, but as the experts on educational issues, teachers must be allowed to speak out about the impact of government policies and give their views on the education system," she said.
Whether from people delivering meals on wheels, to leaders working on pressing community issues, teachers teaching school, and people worshiping in churches, civility happens.
In some sense, the waivers seem like a direct response to the issues teachers raised when responding to accusations of cheating.
And when I wrote that United Teachers Los Angeles is militantly inflexible on many issues, teachers screamed that I was scapegoating them and playing the stooge for billionaire "reformers" out to privatize public education.
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