DUNCAN: PRINCIPALS AS CEOS. . . (AND STUDENTS AS JUST PRODUCTS?)

Change - Arne Duncan doesn't want principals to be like teachers, like role models, or like leaders, but demands they become CEOs. With recent fears of schools being turned into businesses that focus more on numbers (money, test scores) so much more than teaching (curricula, quality teachers), this is the cherry on top. . .

So are we going to let these new CEOs play quick and fast with our kids' education, give the prinicipals bonuses no matter how the 'company' performs, and then bail them out with money for new reforms when their plan fails? Treating principals like CEOs seems crazy. Who are the share-holders of this corporation? The government, one can only presume. This sort of approach is likely to only lead to a more efficient production line like education of children programmed how to answer test questions, teachers programmed to teach the test, leading to a 'product' unable to compete internationally. Children aren't products, and demanding principal become more like CEOs is frightening.