NJ Governor Chris Christie: Test the TEACHERS

New Jersey Governor Chris Christie -- [man, how I wish we had him as Governator in Fornicalia] -- is on the move again with regard to education. From CBSNewYork:

OLD BRIDGE, N.J. (CBS 2) — Determined to turn New Jersey’s education system on its head, Gov. Chris Christie on Tuesday unveiled a tough-love reform package that will make classroom achievement — not seniority or tenure — the basis for pay hikes and career advancement in Garden State public schools.

Christie is turning his take-no-prisoner’s style to the classroom, demanding a top to bottom overhaul of how New Jersey students learn and teachers teach. And that means undoing tenure, seniority and other union work rules.

And further -- omigawd:

Unqualified teachers will feel the lash. The governor is demanding that teachers in kindergarten through fifth grade actually pass tests in reading and math in order to be certified.

“It might lead to the firing of teachers and principals who hurt our children,” Christie said.

The governor wants to turn the old seniority system inside out and put quality teaching ahead of lack-luster performance. He will:

* Prohibit salary scales based on seniority

* Grant raises based on classroom performance

* Give tenure based on classroom performance

The standard claptrap was spewed by teachers unions and representatives and such:

A spokesman for the New Jersey Education Association attacked the governor’s plan saying that once again he was “trying to implement education reform without any input from educators.”

You want to see how education ACTUALLY works in the Real World of Big Cities, at the hands of so-called "educators"? Watch season four of The Wire.

Mr Christie's bent on education can be viewed below, wherein he slaughters a well-meaning but completely unarmed-with-facts teacher:



Sounds to me like education is about to be shaken to its very core in New Jersey. I say: it's about time.

Please, Mr Christie, couldn't you run for governor in Fornicalia?

BZ

P.S.
Yeah, Christie's fat. BFD. GTFOI. Ideas trump avoirdupois.

P.P.S.
"Education" in America is a HUGE scam predicated upon the numbers of BIS (butts in seats). Plain and simple. We are corrupting our kids and corrupting our future. Other countries already know this. They cannot wait to push us aside and take the educational, inventive, intelligent lead. As many countries have already.

P.P.P.S:
The teachers' unions apparently responded and wished Christie dead -- allegedly only in jest: