by David Safier The NY Times has posted a series of short videos of teachers in their classrooms with a running narration describing why what the teacher is doing is effective. These things are usually dreary and didactic, but this set of videos is a welcome change. They're short, interesting and helpful. The videos are … Read more
by David Safier All bus drivers are bureaucrats, but not all bureaucrats are bus drivers. All buses drive bureaucrats, but not all bureaucrats drive buses. All cafeteria food is bureaucratic, but not all bureaucrats eat cafeteria food. Teachers are not bureaucrats, but some teachers teach bureaucrats. When the broom is an arrow, the custodian is … Read more
by David Safier I already posted about a letter I received from Starlee Rhoades, Vice President of External Affairs at the Goldwater Institute. It was in response to my insisting Matthew Ladner made an error when he wrote Arizona school districts have "an almost 1-to-1 teacher to bureaucrat ratio." The letter stated Ladner used the … Read more
by David Safier I didn't say it, but J. Davidson did in a comment about Ladner's Zany, Zen-y Emails, referring to the text of one of Ladner's emails in response to my "Are teachers bureaucrats too?" question. "All baseballs are balls, but not all balls are baseballs." Dude. Ladner gets paid $141,000 a year for … Read more
by David Safier BruceJ, a reader, chimes in about Ladner's "all government employees except teachers are bureaucrats" line: If he literally believes that everyone who works for the government is a bureaucrat, he should have no trouble telling a buncha Navy SEALS that they're 'just bureaucrats'.