I have now read quite a few articles and comments on HN with teachers attacking either testing or MOOCs (some links below). There comments share a strange incoh

I have now read quite a few articles and comments on HN with teachers attacking either testing or MOOCs (some links below). There comments share a strange incoherence, tending to ramble on about irrelevant but emotionally charged issues (e.g. the rant on disrespect for teachers here) while ignoring pertinent facts (e.g. any evidence pre-NCLB students were better prepared than today's students). There is also a strange paranoia as if there is some grand conspiracy to "damage" education and harm students when as best I can tell the targets of this wrath (e.g. Bill Gates) are tying to help solve what they see as an extremely critical problem. Is this really representative of the "thinking" of our teachers generally? http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5162105 http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5162105 http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2633341 http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2633341 http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5124993 http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5124993 http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5118174 http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5118174