Michelle Rhee- Bee Eater

Michelle Rhee was once on the cover of the Time magazine for being the D.C. School Chancellor.  She was also endorsed twice by Oprah Winfrey for having the chutzpah as education reformer.  It is so rare to see people have that kind of audacity to try to change such a chaotic bureaucratic system.  

Public school system really sucks in big cities in this county for a lot of reasons and lack of funding, super strong teacher's union (Teachers' Union) are some of the reasons to blame.  I never understand why this country claims to be the super power but the public schools are so bad.   Did you see Obama sending his own 2 daughters to public school?  What the hell?

Rhee joined Teach for America after college and was sent to teach in a public school in Baltimore.  After she was appointed to be the D.C. School Chancellor at age 37, she implemented system to get rid of teachers who were deemed ineffective.  Her biggest action was trying to abolish teacher tenure system.  Hooray for Rhee!!!!  How can anyone be accountable when their action have no consequence????

Teachers' Union did not like the idea at all and said that Rhee is the like Sarah Palin because Rhee was so naive about the education system and one can't treat kids the same as they all came from different backgrounds.  Of course, all kids are from different backgrounds and Rhee can't control what happens outside of school, but her job as a chancellor is to protect the children.

When Teachers' Union trying to put their members benefits first, the raise? vacation? number of hours per day???  What kind of crap was that?  Who is watching over the benefits of the children.  Should children have a union like Teachers' Union as well?????

NYC children have the option to take the test at the age 4 to ensure getting into the "good" public schools.  All public schools should be good school is basically what Rhee was trying to accomplish.

Mayor Fenty who appointed Rhee lost the 2nd election because Rhee created such a controversy and Teachers' Union ran a $1 Million dollars commercial about how bad Rhee was doing before the election.  Mayor Fenty lost the election and Rhee also lost her job as a chancellor last year.

But Rhee did not back down and she now has her own organization, Student First, http://www.studentsfirst.org/, please check it out and be a member to support her mission.  Here is the mission statement!

Our Mission is to build a national movement to defend the interests of children in public education and pursue transformative reform, so that America has the best education system in the world.

Hooray for Rhee again!!!  Go girl!, Go Korean American girl!!!!

Bee Eater? A bee came into the classroom when Rhee was a teacher in Baltimore and all the kids were running around (kids were already very antsy and knew how to push the bottom of any teacher).  Rhee grabbed the bee and ate it.  Kids were in shock and started listen to her.   She is crazy, but you got to love her!!  I do!