Posted at 2014.10.26 Category : Washington Post
雑誌TIMEのアメリカ版の今週号はエボラではなく、学校教師批判をとりあえげています。表紙にこちらを選んだということは、米国でも教育への関心が高いと踏んでのことでしょうが。しかし、その直後に教師組合がクレームを出しているそうです。
A Time magazine cover enrages teachers — again
By Valerie Strauss October 25 at 2:41 PM
Time magazine has done it again: It published a cover that has enraged teachers around the country, triggering protesting e-mails and tweets, a petition demanding an apology, and a call for a boycott.
米国の教師はtenureで雇用が守られているそうですが、2008年の時は教師の解雇に積極的な立場を取っていたMichelle Rheeさんを表紙にして話題になったようです。２匹目のドジョウを狙った部分があるんでしょうね。今回の経緯を紹介してくれている部分で、シリコンバレーの経営者が主役の一人のようです。
And now, they are furious about the Nov. 3 Time cover, with the title “Rotten Apples.” The blurb under it says, “It is nearly impossible to fire a bad teacher”(which Rhee proved isn’t actually true as she fired teacher after teacher). The accompanying story is about the latest effort by school reformers to reduce or end teacher job protections (and therefore reduce or destroy the power of the teachers unions), highlighted best in a recent case titled Vergara v. California, in which a judge threw out state statutes giving tenure and other job protections to teachers. Campbell Brown, the former CNN anchor, has emerged as a leader of these new efforts to sue individual states with strong job protections for teachers.
Time’s article looks at wealthy philanthropists who have become involved in school reform, focusing on Silicon Valley entrepreneur David Welch, who started an organization called Students Matter, which started and funded the Vergara case. Teachers are furious, especially at the magazine cover, which they see as sending the message that there are loads of “rotten apples” that only “tech millionaires” know how remove from the classroom. Yet again, wealthy philanthropists and businessman are being cast as the saviors of public education when, in fact, they aren’t.
最後の部分は、なんか日本での三木谷さんへの反応を彷彿させるものですね。
Teachers are furious, especially at the magazine cover, which they see as sending the message that there are loads of “rotten apples” that only “tech millionaires” know how remove from the classroom. Yet again, wealthy philanthropists and businessman are being cast as the saviors of public education when, in fact, they aren’t.
（教師たちは、特に雑誌の表紙に対して激怒していた。「腐ったりんご」が大量にあり、「IT長者」だけが教室から取り除く術を分かっているといったメッセージを送っていると捉えているのだ。またしても、裕福な慈善家やビジネスマンが公教育の救世主の役回りを務めているのだ。実際にはそんなことはないのに）
rotten appleはよく知られたイディオムですが、念のため確認しておきます。
（ロングマン）
a rotten apple
one bad person who has a bad effect on all the others in a group
TIMEの発売日は金曜日ですから、発売日当日にThe American Federation of Teachersは以下の声明を出したことになります。
10/24/2014
AFT members respond en masse to Time's rotten cover
One rotten apple at Time magazine—specifically, the cover of an upcoming issue about teacher tenure—is generating lots of anger and activism among AFT members and our friends and allies.
The cover for an issue set to hit newsstands on Nov. 3, which reads, in part, "Rotten Apples: It's Nearly Impossible to Fire a Bad Teacher," shows a gavel about to smash an apple. "When I saw this today, I felt sick," AFT President Randi Weingarten said in an email message to AFT activists. "This Time cover isn't trying to foster a serious dialogue about solutions our schools need—it's intentionally creating controversy to sell more copies."
Weingarten's email also included links to a petition urging educators to ask Time to apologize (link is external) for the misleading and inflammatory cover. The message clearly struck a nerve, with thousands of people signing the petition, sharing it on social media, tweeting at Time, and generally expressing their displeasure with the magazine. In less than 24 hours, more than 25,000 had signed the petition. - See more at:
謝罪要求の請願書が１日で25000名も集まったというのですから、反響の大きさを感じます。以下がそのよびかけのメッセージですが、記事内容というよりもセンセーショナルな表紙に怒っている感じですね。
TIME: Apologize to teachers
Time magazine is about to use its cover to blame teachers for the problems in America’s schools. On Monday, Nov. 3, this cover will be in every supermarket checkout line and newsstand across the country—and it’s already online.
And Time’s cover doesn’t even reflect its own reporting. The Time article itself looks at the wealthy sponsors of these efforts. And while it looks critically at tenure, it also questions the testing industry’s connections to Silicon Valley and the motives of these players.
The cover is particularly disappointing because the articles inside the magazine present a much more balanced view of the issue. But for millions of Americans, all they’ll see is the cover and a misleading attack on teachers.
Join us in telling Time to apologize to educators for this misleading cover!
どの国も教育問題は大変ですね。。。。
A Time magazine cover enrages teachers — again
By Valerie Strauss October 25 at 2:41 PM
Time magazine has done it again: It published a cover that has enraged teachers around the country, triggering protesting e-mails and tweets, a petition demanding an apology, and a call for a boycott.
米国の教師はtenureで雇用が守られているそうですが、2008年の時は教師の解雇に積極的な立場を取っていたMichelle Rheeさんを表紙にして話題になったようです。２匹目のドジョウを狙った部分があるんでしょうね。今回の経緯を紹介してくれている部分で、シリコンバレーの経営者が主役の一人のようです。
And now, they are furious about the Nov. 3 Time cover, with the title “Rotten Apples.” The blurb under it says, “It is nearly impossible to fire a bad teacher”(which Rhee proved isn’t actually true as she fired teacher after teacher). The accompanying story is about the latest effort by school reformers to reduce or end teacher job protections (and therefore reduce or destroy the power of the teachers unions), highlighted best in a recent case titled Vergara v. California, in which a judge threw out state statutes giving tenure and other job protections to teachers. Campbell Brown, the former CNN anchor, has emerged as a leader of these new efforts to sue individual states with strong job protections for teachers.
Time’s article looks at wealthy philanthropists who have become involved in school reform, focusing on Silicon Valley entrepreneur David Welch, who started an organization called Students Matter, which started and funded the Vergara case. Teachers are furious, especially at the magazine cover, which they see as sending the message that there are loads of “rotten apples” that only “tech millionaires” know how remove from the classroom. Yet again, wealthy philanthropists and businessman are being cast as the saviors of public education when, in fact, they aren’t.
最後の部分は、なんか日本での三木谷さんへの反応を彷彿させるものですね。
Teachers are furious, especially at the magazine cover, which they see as sending the message that there are loads of “rotten apples” that only “tech millionaires” know how remove from the classroom. Yet again, wealthy philanthropists and businessman are being cast as the saviors of public education when, in fact, they aren’t.
（教師たちは、特に雑誌の表紙に対して激怒していた。「腐ったりんご」が大量にあり、「IT長者」だけが教室から取り除く術を分かっているといったメッセージを送っていると捉えているのだ。またしても、裕福な慈善家やビジネスマンが公教育の救世主の役回りを務めているのだ。実際にはそんなことはないのに）
rotten appleはよく知られたイディオムですが、念のため確認しておきます。
（ロングマン）
a rotten apple
one bad person who has a bad effect on all the others in a group
TIMEの発売日は金曜日ですから、発売日当日にThe American Federation of Teachersは以下の声明を出したことになります。
10/24/2014
AFT members respond en masse to Time's rotten cover
One rotten apple at Time magazine—specifically, the cover of an upcoming issue about teacher tenure—is generating lots of anger and activism among AFT members and our friends and allies.
The cover for an issue set to hit newsstands on Nov. 3, which reads, in part, "Rotten Apples: It's Nearly Impossible to Fire a Bad Teacher," shows a gavel about to smash an apple. "When I saw this today, I felt sick," AFT President Randi Weingarten said in an email message to AFT activists. "This Time cover isn't trying to foster a serious dialogue about solutions our schools need—it's intentionally creating controversy to sell more copies."
Weingarten's email also included links to a petition urging educators to ask Time to apologize (link is external) for the misleading and inflammatory cover. The message clearly struck a nerve, with thousands of people signing the petition, sharing it on social media, tweeting at Time, and generally expressing their displeasure with the magazine. In less than 24 hours, more than 25,000 had signed the petition. - See more at:
謝罪要求の請願書が１日で25000名も集まったというのですから、反響の大きさを感じます。以下がそのよびかけのメッセージですが、記事内容というよりもセンセーショナルな表紙に怒っている感じですね。
TIME: Apologize to teachers
Time magazine is about to use its cover to blame teachers for the problems in America’s schools. On Monday, Nov. 3, this cover will be in every supermarket checkout line and newsstand across the country—and it’s already online.
And Time’s cover doesn’t even reflect its own reporting. The Time article itself looks at the wealthy sponsors of these efforts. And while it looks critically at tenure, it also questions the testing industry’s connections to Silicon Valley and the motives of these players.
The cover is particularly disappointing because the articles inside the magazine present a much more balanced view of the issue. But for millions of Americans, all they’ll see is the cover and a misleading attack on teachers.
Join us in telling Time to apologize to educators for this misleading cover!
どの国も教育問題は大変ですね。。。。
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