Teachers and leaders in education petitioning President Obama to remove Arne Duncan

Over 400 teachers, leaders in education and American citizens have signed a petition asking President Barack Obama to remove  U.S. Secretary of Education Arne Duncan. Some of the comments on the petition:

• "He is not qualified and is ruining education in America."
• "He is holding school systems hostage to testing that makes no accounting of the very existence of multiple intelligences or learning styles."
• "Mr. Duncan is simply unqualified and doing much harm to public schools across the country."
• "Replace Duncan with someone who knows what education is all about! A teacher, perhaps?
• "Dump Duncan"
• "remove him now."
• "Education needs to be funded in a fair and consistent way. It needs a leader who understands that test scores are not what we expect as the end result of education--an education is!! "
  

  President Obama's choice of Mr. Duncan to head the Department of Education is disappointing, even more so given Mr. Duncan's record in Chicago and his support for the evaluation of teachers using test scores. Why must we suffer with educational leaders who have spent so little time in the classroom and really don't understand what teaching entails.