Sycophantic Bureaucratic Weasels

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Sycophantic Bureaucratic Weasels

How are teachers going to be prepared for changes in Educational Policies that aren't discussed with them?  The Louisiana Answer

The magically thinking policy wonks in Baton Rouge will all put on their pink tutus and get out their toe shoes and magic wands and dance around the legislators and bow to the governor. Then, John White, the State Superintendent of Education, will march on stage with a bunch of syncophantic bureaucratic weasels in Teach-for-America clogs to announce through dance the miraculous change of everything in every school and every teacher. He will proclaim that poverty, hardship, and disasters are henceforth banned from the mythical state of Louisiana forever and all children will be above average on every test. He will have teachers believe impossible things before breakfast while wealthy charter school companies rob them of everything they own and then imprison them in schools run by for-profit prison companies from outside Louisiana. Those teachers who refuse to kiss the feet (or other anatomical parts) of the Superintendent will lose their certifications or have their salaries reduced following the application of special herbs called "Value Added". The principals will be told what to tell teachers, but then the rules will be changed so they don't know what is going on either and their version of the magic plan will be completely different from the State Superintendent’s despite being danced to the same music. The climax will be when all schools are declared ineffective and their keys will be returned to the Governor to be given to those who back him for his next political office. Meanwhile, the governor will do grands jetés across the state chased by justices of the Louisiana supreme court who will regularly be lost in the potholes of Louisiana corruption.

--R