We want to Run it like a Business...

So...if you crash and burn on Wall Street, you get a raise!

As an educator living under the Joel Klein era , this really opens my eyes. Mr. Klein and Mr. Bloomberg steamrolled over the Board of Education, smashing the old apparatus of doing the business of education. Some of the changes were good, many not so good. They have tried to privatize or "pseudo-privatize" (i.e., asked their high-priced lawyers how to privatize the system as much as possible and destroy the teachers' union without actually appearing to do so) many elements of the education system. They contend that the education system should be "run like a business", with leaders and teachers being held "accountable".

But, as we see in this New York Times article from January 27, 2008 (see below), the men who lost BILLIONS in the sub-prime debacle of the past few years are being courted by other corporations who are simply throwing money at them! If we carry this out to its (il)logical conclusion, those principals and teachers who received a "D' or an "F" on the school progress report should be fired and then rehired at other schools, with a big raise. After all, we want it to run "like a business..."