Shocking, awful, embarrassing - especially since I have long admired you both–Grant and, John.

I often thought Grant’s thinking cool/cold/logic without the common human touch, but I also respected the insights that flowed from his logic. I just can’t believe you and he wrote that junk, John. What do you think it does to kids, families, human beings…even if the test evaluations were a good measure. Nobody in the field of testing would argue for it - as you surely know. Even when I fired people for far better reasons, I did it in ways that would cause the least hurt possible. Teachers who are unsuccessful are not criminals, or bad people, or deserving of being mistreated. It’s a blow against our common humanity - surely the most precious thing we have to pass on to our children. By our way of treating each other shall we be known. (Do you imagine the possibility of this being done to one of your own offspring??? In any field?)

I presume you’d like us also to go back to the days when the kids scores are publicly posted too.

Maybe we can add their families - to spread the “shame” as widely as we can.

The naming of names based on dubious measures is truly disgraceful.

I am disappointed and shocked to see you endorsing this approach.

Why humiliate people in public when most psychometricians and accountability experts say that VAA [value-added assessment] is not ready for prime time? Shall we put scarlet letters around the necks of teachers whose kids don’t get higher test scores? Continue on this path, and we will have more teaching to lousy tests, more narrowing of the curriculum, and more cheating. Not good education. Not a way to improve education. Just mean-spirited and pointless.