On the plus side, most PS parents are NOT buying school "reform"/ [View All]

At least in NYC.

55% Thompson vs 43 % Bloomberg ( remember this is after a 102 million $$$ media campaign to persuade them otherwise.)

Bloomberg's one of Duncan's and Obama's educational role models and arguably the nation's school-'privatizer in chief'.

OTOH...ps families made up only 25% of total voters. Which underscores what I've been saying about the privatization movement ( sorry, I won't call it 'reform' anymore... not even in quotes ....since it is NOT 'reform', but it's *opposite*.).

And that is: it ( privatization and related concepts) sounds like a real great idea to people who DO NOT USE PUBLIC EDUCATION.




http://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2009/11/04/nyregion/1104-ny-exit-poll.html

This breakdown is fascinating on a number of other levels as well. Among other things it should serve to wake up those dreamers among us who think we are moving toward a post-racial, post-religion society. Unh-unh.

And what's with GLBT's breaking 51-48 for the Republican candidate? If marriage equality is what we're after, we're going about it the hard way.