Middle school teacher appointed Virginia’s next education secretary
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[quote]A middle school teacher in Prince William County was appointed Virginia’s next education secretary by Gov.-elect Ralph Northam (D).
The announcement that Atif Qarni — a civics, economics, U.S. history and math teacher at Beville Middle School in Woodbridge — would join Northam’s Cabinet was made at the school Thursday by the governor-elect.
Qarni’s appointment is unusual: A teacher hasn’t stepped directly from the classroom into the Cabinet for at least a decade, according to the Virginia Education Association, one of the state’s confederation of teachers.
Qarni said he will bring a vital perspective to the position, in which he will be responsible for providing guidance and support on education policy.
“I bring a lot of field expertise, which was really needed,” the 39-year-old said. “This is a dream come true as an educator, because I can work on a larger scale now.”[/quote]
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Local politics, but I thought it was interesting. Instead of appointing a lawyer or businessman like many administrations do, the Governor-elect brought on an actual educator.
An educator educating about education... Who would have thought.
This shit should be standard, who else other than someone who actually taught children will know what is needed.
[url]https://politics.theonion.com/emergency-team-of-8th-grade-civics-teachers-dispatched-1819572823[/url]
Reality is emulating the onion more and more
[quote][B]Emergency Team Of 8th-Grade Civics Teachers Dispatched To Washington[/B]
WASHINGTON—With lawmakers still at an impasse over increasing the debt ceiling, a special team of 40 eighth-grade civics teachers was air-dropped into Washington earlier today in a last-ditch effort to teach congressional leaders how the government’s legislative process works. “We started them off with the basics, like the difference between a senator and a representative, and then moved on to more complex concepts, like what a resolution is,” Bozeman, MT social studies teacher Heidi Rossmiller told reporters as all 535 members of Congress copied down the definition of “checks and balances” from a whiteboard in the House chamber. “It’s been a bit of an uphill battle, since most of them seemed to have no real sense of how or why a bill is passed, and Sen. [Harry] Reid [D-NV] had to come up to me during a break and ask, ‘Ms. Rossmiller, what happens if Congress can’t reach a compromise?’ But hopefully it will all start to sink in soon.” At press time, an unruly House Speaker John Boehner (R-OH) had noisily stormed out of a lecture on bipartisan cooperation, claiming it was “too hard.”[/quote]
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I'm almost certain most republicans (and to be fair probably democrat) senators do not know how the actual process works, look at the venerable lindsey graham saying how they will repeal obamacare in the coming year. you guys get your one bullet a year and you fired it on corporate welfare.
Having a real educator in charge is what the school system needs, my grandfather started out as a teacher and brought all that experience to bear on the many school districts he guided throughout his career, and you just don't see school districts doing that anymore, the leadership are MBAs and such who make fine administrators but they can't see the forest for the trees.
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