Michelle Rhee: Save Great Teachers - StudentsFirst.org's National Campaign

Watch this StudentsFirst video, then let's Save Great Teachers: http://www.studentsfirst.org/rheevid

Great teachers make a tremendous difference in students' lives.

But in this current fiscal crisis, with at least160,000 teachers facing layoffs, we risk losing some of the best teachers in America.

Effective teachers belong in the classroom.

StudentsFirst is launching our first national campaign to save these teachers from the upcoming wave of layoffs.

Watch the short video to the right, then sign our pledge to "Save Great Teachers" invite 10 friends to do the same:
http://www.studentsfirst.org/rheevid

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[Reporter40]

All wrong Miss Rhee. There's nothing wrong with Last In First Out. That means, nothing wrong with it if teachers are equal in quality, more or less. If the teacher is a bad teacher then he/she should have been fired anyway. But the unions won't allow it. But that doesn't mean that LIFO should be changed/abandoned. Those two things are a seperate matter. You're combining LIFO and bad teachers on purpose for your other gains... Probably to bypass union rules. I can understand, but it's not good.

[hotfingersandwich]

Also, if she "cares" so much about underprivileged kids, why did she bolt from the classroom after a mere three years or so? Why? Because she's full of shit, that's why. Follow the money, Michelle, follow the money...

[aatkinsonification]

@MartellusCarolus I know it is not easy to fire a teacher. Districts have learned other ways to get rid of them besides firing. But my impression is that most teachers get into it because they want to teach. Whether or not they make extra money has little bearing on how much harder they try. My feeling is that districts actually go after some of the best teachers because they may not be popular.

[MartellusCarolus]

@aatkinsonification

It's okay if you don't get it. Teachers are ridiculously hard to be fired because of contracts that unions negotiated. So whatever the fuck the teacher does, he won't be fired. No matter how shitty teacher he is, he will still get the same salary. Then why the fuck would he actually try hard to teach?????

[aatkinsonification]

@MartellusCarolus You mean the main reason that our students drop out and aren't academically proficient is because of teacher tenure? How so?

[MartellusCarolus]

Hey, you Socialist, unionist bastards it's always great to see how you can't bring up a normal argument against her. She brilliantly found the plague of American public education: teacher tenure. Why would teachers try hard to teach if they can't be fired no matter what? Why would teachers try hard to teach if they don't get more salary?

[bnannylv]

Rhee is lying about this. The only reason she gets such a BIG VOICE is because the richest people in the country keep shoveling money into her pockets and funding her self-serving organizations.

Rhee loves Christie, Walker and all other right-wing, anti-worker governors. She's shameful.

[viall4diabetes]

Rhee NEVER addresses the hard questions: how to educate the stabber vs. the stabbed.

See: ateacheronteaching.blogspot.co­m: Lady with a Broom: MIchelle Rhee

Try explaining how teachers were at fault, for example, when the average child in D. C. schools missed 21.6 days of instruction.

[UCSDEngineerDoctor]

@bbbbmer Yeah she might go to prison, but the teachers UNION do not fire child abusers, rapists, molesters let alone send them to prison.

[bbbbmer]

What a cunt.... I hope she's in prison before year end....