When one Hamilton County Board of Education candidate was asked this week what he thought about President Barack Obama’s idea of yanking good teachers out of the schools in which they’re teaching and plunking them in what the president called “the poorest schools,” he didn’t mince words.
“That would never work,” he said. “People would stop supporting [the schools].”
But Obama, by signing yet another one of his executive orders to get around Congress, will require states to submit plans to do just that by April 2015 and will authorize $4.2 million for support of the plan in states and districts.
“Unfortunately, there are a lot of kids around the country who are not getting the kind of teaching they need … because we’re not doing enough to put a lot of our teachers in a position to succeed,” the president said.
Let’s think about that.