http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs...a-time-magazine-cover-enrages-teachers-again/
Teachers Call For Boycott Against Time Magazine Over Critical Story on Tenure
The accompanying story is about the latest effort by school reformers to reduce or end teacher job protections (and therefore reduce or destroy the power of the teachers unions), highlighted best in a recent case titled Vergara v. California, in which a judge threw out state statutes giving tenure and other job protections to teachers. Campbell Brown, the former CNN anchor, has emerged as a leader of these new efforts to sue individual states with strong job protections for teachers.
Time’s article looks at wealthy philanthropists who have become involved in school reform, focusing on Silicon Valley entrepreneur David Welch, who started an organization called Students Matter, which started and funded the Vergara case. Teachers are furious, especially at the magazine cover, which they see as sending the message that there are loads of “rotten apples” that only “tech millionaires” know how remove from the classroom. Yet again, wealthy philanthropists and businessman are being cast as the saviors of public education when, in fact, they aren’t.
The American Federation of Teachers, the second largest teachers union in the country, started a petition demanding that Time apologize to teachers for its cover — not the accompanying article. It says in part:
…Time magazine is about to use its cover to blame teachers for the problems in America’s schools… Time’s cover doesn’t even reflect its own reporting. The Time article itself looks at the wealthy sponsors of these efforts. And while it looks critically at tenure, it also questions the testing industry’s connections to Silicon Valley and the motives of these players.
The cover is particularly disappointing because the articles inside the magazine present a much more balanced view of the issue. But for millions of Americans, all they’ll see is the cover and a misleading attack on teachers.
In the first day more than 50,000 people signed the petition.
Teachers Call For Boycott Against Time Magazine Over Critical Story on Tenure
The accompanying story is about the latest effort by school reformers to reduce or end teacher job protections (and therefore reduce or destroy the power of the teachers unions), highlighted best in a recent case titled Vergara v. California, in which a judge threw out state statutes giving tenure and other job protections to teachers. Campbell Brown, the former CNN anchor, has emerged as a leader of these new efforts to sue individual states with strong job protections for teachers.
Time’s article looks at wealthy philanthropists who have become involved in school reform, focusing on Silicon Valley entrepreneur David Welch, who started an organization called Students Matter, which started and funded the Vergara case. Teachers are furious, especially at the magazine cover, which they see as sending the message that there are loads of “rotten apples” that only “tech millionaires” know how remove from the classroom. Yet again, wealthy philanthropists and businessman are being cast as the saviors of public education when, in fact, they aren’t.
The American Federation of Teachers, the second largest teachers union in the country, started a petition demanding that Time apologize to teachers for its cover — not the accompanying article. It says in part:
…Time magazine is about to use its cover to blame teachers for the problems in America’s schools… Time’s cover doesn’t even reflect its own reporting. The Time article itself looks at the wealthy sponsors of these efforts. And while it looks critically at tenure, it also questions the testing industry’s connections to Silicon Valley and the motives of these players.
The cover is particularly disappointing because the articles inside the magazine present a much more balanced view of the issue. But for millions of Americans, all they’ll see is the cover and a misleading attack on teachers.
In the first day more than 50,000 people signed the petition.
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Tell me about it! The climate is right for an *anti union* push.
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