One of my posts was recently picked up by Teacher magazine's blog:
http://blogs.edweek.org/teachers/blogboard/archives/2007/05/headaches_over.html
I don't understand the third comment, though.
Collecting Shards Of Heartbreak
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Aminatta Forna describes the creation of the Museum of Broken Relationships
in Zagreb, Croatia: Olinka Vistica and Drazen Grubisic, the museum’s
founders, ...
4 minutes ago
4 comments:
I wonder if that person is a native speaker of English?
Why said this on you? I made a simple and you just blubbering in the end. Students need this. Learning more is better than scheduling on you.
Ok, only kidding. I'm not Bob...
Fake Bob > Real Bob
Go Fake Bob!
I think I finally figured it out before I made the mistake of flaming him on the blog link. I think I have been known to write like him after several hours of sleep deprivation and possibly a can and a half of Asahi Super-Dry.
Rather than his posing an attack on you, I think he was implying that North Avenue does not think you were doing enough using your "old methods" of teaching (and that assumes that massive extra testing is considered teaching).
If that were an accurate assessment by the squirrels at North Avenue, why did we have to give these "bench marks" (my inner muse is nudging me to try to fashion a synonym using the word "stool" rather than bench ;>P) in departments that already had pass rates so high on the HSA that the governor used them as a talking points in his campaign?
Similar to when the squirrels ram-rodded city-wide EOCAs on us (which WE had to rewrite), I'd have less problem with using the given bench marks in lieu of ours if they were valid assessments of what had been taught up to the point that they were given.
*SIGH* I'd better shut up and post or I will never finish my grading in time.
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