Well, here we go NJ educators. The manager of 7-11 is now going to run our district. Chris Cristie has gotten away with this one. He is out of his mind. You have to read the article to understand the true insanity of it all. Now anyone with a Bachelor's degree can be a school superintendent in a low performing/ failing district. Forget about spending countless hours and dollars in a masters program to understand the organizational side of the superintendent. Anyone with a bachelors degree and a healthy political connection or contribution will be in. I am appalled. Each time I read an article about Christie referring to education as a business I cringe. It is pure insanity. For starters, the main constituent of education is not a constant, the child), especially in the urban district. Urban kids go through so much from the time they leave school to the time the get back in the morning. I can't tell you how many students I give high fives to one day and the next day suspending them for cursing out a teacher. His feeling is that schools should be treated as a business, "that the end result is a business product, a student graduating into the business community" I agree that our products are the children, however, there are too many uncontrollable circumstances that are dealt with on a daily basis that hinder a child's education, especially the urban child.
Now what we don't see is this happening in the well do do districts. Go figure. Wake up New Jersey, before it's too late. Pretty school you will be seeing signs that read: "'Proctor and Gamble privatized schools system' our motto: Children are a business, not our business".
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