One of the big reasons some of us got together & started TeacherTalk Nevada was because of all the double talk that saturates Nevada's school system. It always grates, but, worse than that, it's more often than we like to think an actual cover for outright fraud. Personally, I think school district bigwigs in those cases really ought to go to jail.
Yippee -- one of our founding gang members -- recently sent in a perfect example of one such ongoing major fraud on the Nevada public. It's a first-person account that starts out with his general reflections, but then gets into what really, when you stop to think about it, is a heartbreaking situation -- for both teachers and kids:
By Yippee
One of the biggest problems in our public schools today, based upon my 23 years of employment experiences in three public high schools in two public school districts, is what I will refer to as 'doubletalk'.
School leaders, at the district level and the school level, talk about increasing standards and improving learning but do many things and create numerous programs that undermine any efforts to truly achieve these things.
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