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Apr. 6th, 2019 11:00 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
evening_tsarSo now they want to make the tests annual. . .
They can fuck right off.
If I occasionally have to prove my competence in a subject I' teaching, fair enough. But if I have to waste time studying for a test outside my field, year after year, forget it. This is not about competence.
This a game of "gotchya!" If they didn't catch you last time, they want to catch you next time. They want to keep trying until they can catch you stumbling in an area outside your expertise.
This has nothing to do with helping kids, but entirely about punishing teachers. The message is simple:
We don't trust you.
We don't value you.
We don't value your contribution.
We don't value your skills.
We don't value your field.
We're going to keep trying 'till we're rid of you.
Value and values are the big things here. These philistines don't value the arts or humanities, or indeed anything that can't immediately be monetized, and are trying to delegitimize it with punitive tests. I can't help noticing that math teachers won't be taking literacy tests, or IT instructors history (itself only worthwhile for instilling nationalism).
This is an attempt to belittle noble professions and fields, by boors who don't get them. Having my competence questioned questioned by these knuckle dragging troglodytes is particularly galling. This drug-dealing college drop-out wants to test ME on an accademic issue?
I'll take their test when they come and take mine. How well would you do on Grade 11 College Prep English Mr. Ford? How well DID you do?
(And in case you think I'm libelling:
https://www.theglobeandmail.com/news/toronto/globe-investigation-the-ford-familys-history-with-drug-dealing/article12153014/
https://www.theatlantic.com/international/archive/2013/05/toronto-deputy-mayor-doug-ford-robs-brother-former-hash-dealer/314893/)
They can fuck right off.
If I occasionally have to prove my competence in a subject I' teaching, fair enough. But if I have to waste time studying for a test outside my field, year after year, forget it. This is not about competence.
This a game of "gotchya!" If they didn't catch you last time, they want to catch you next time. They want to keep trying until they can catch you stumbling in an area outside your expertise.
This has nothing to do with helping kids, but entirely about punishing teachers. The message is simple:
We don't trust you.
We don't value you.
We don't value your contribution.
We don't value your skills.
We don't value your field.
We're going to keep trying 'till we're rid of you.
Value and values are the big things here. These philistines don't value the arts or humanities, or indeed anything that can't immediately be monetized, and are trying to delegitimize it with punitive tests. I can't help noticing that math teachers won't be taking literacy tests, or IT instructors history (itself only worthwhile for instilling nationalism).
This is an attempt to belittle noble professions and fields, by boors who don't get them. Having my competence questioned questioned by these knuckle dragging troglodytes is particularly galling. This drug-dealing college drop-out wants to test ME on an accademic issue?
I'll take their test when they come and take mine. How well would you do on Grade 11 College Prep English Mr. Ford? How well DID you do?
(And in case you think I'm libelling:
https://www.theglobeandmail.com/news/toronto/globe-investigation-the-ford-familys-history-with-drug-dealing/article12153014/
https://www.theatlantic.com/international/archive/2013/05/toronto-deputy-mayor-doug-ford-robs-brother-former-hash-dealer/314893/)
