How Long Will This Evaluation System Last?

James Eterno described King's imposed system as an incoherent bureaucratic mess and I think that's exactly right.

So much of this system is unworkable in practice and won't improve either teaching or learning.

Of course it's not meant to improve teaching and learning, it's meant to give NYC the power to fire as many teachers as they want as quickly as they want.

But I am not convinced that this will happen before the system collapses from unworkability and court challenges.

Will the VAM stand up to a court challenge?

Will the SLO's?

Will the way they've rigged the 100 point system for the overall APPR to make it almost impossible to be rated "highly effective" or "effective"?

Will allowing third graders to evaluate their teachers stand up to court scrutiny?

I'll admit, I'm not a lawyer, but I have a hard time seeing how something so convoluted and incoherent stands up to court challenges.

And there's the whole unworkability angle.

4-6 observations a year for every teacher using all 22 items on the Danielson rubric, with pre-and post-observation conferences.

How long does that kind of burn and churn system last before there's a mass exodus of administrators out of the system?

I know they want to fire teachers en masse, but where exactly are they going to get the hundreds of new administrators a year they're going to need after the current ones start walking away from the workload?

How about all the extra added paperwork teachers have to keep, the "artifacts" as King calls them, in order to prove they're not incompetent?

Most of the job next year will be collecting crap to play CYA with come evaluation-time.

Seriously, I have a difficult time seeing this piece of crap last more than a couple of years before it goes the way of the hipster goatee (oops - NYSED Commissioner/rookie teacher John King still wears one, doesn't he?)

Make no mistake, there will be plenty of careers and reputations destroyed before this thing falls apart under the weight of its own incoherence and unworkability.

But it will.

The arrogance of King, Tisch, Cuomo and the educrats in designing something so over-the-top and unworkable sows the seeds of the system's own destruction.