At Charter Schools, Short Careers by Choice

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5. Young principals without experience coaching young teachers with none.

What is wrong with this picture?

Michelle Rhee became superintendent of DC schools without ever being a principal or assistant principal, and with only a couple years as teacher.

This is pure egoism.

Arrogance unchecked. Those outside education who think they know better than professional educators with long experience. In what other profession does experience receive such disdain from the outside world? I think teaching gets it the worst.

Of course, part of this picture is exploitation, getting young people to work obscene hours with inadequate compensation to fulfill the commercial goals of private educational corporations. The obvious outcome is burnout, and on to the next thing. The kids are abandoned to the next neophyte.

The big lie being sold is that one can become a great teacher within a couple of years. It is a dangerous meme, but it gets massive donations.