Obama's 3 Stooges (Gingrich, Sharpton & Duncan) for Corporate "School Reform"

Bruce Dixon of the Black Agenda Report gets it and exposes public education deform with humor. I'll post excerpts from his right-on-target article below the cartoon but you can find the entire message at http://tinyurl.com/naskao







I urge readers to read Dixon's entire article at the URL posted above.

this thread has been "unrecommended"?

Forgive me, it's been a long time since I've posted here.

i love that poster of the three stooges!

i`ve written many replies about testing arne and his disaster in chicago. i think public education is the bedrock of our country but today in many cases it`s a disaster. it`s become so bad if my wife and i were raising our kids today we would home school them. my wife and i have the secondary education to do that and what we lack can be made up by others.
my daughter dropped out seveal years ago because she could`t pass math or science courses.she passed her ged and today she is making more money per hour than my wife and i have ever made. she`s a first responder,safety committee leader,and has over 12 hours in an on going osha training program. she would be a reject in arne`s system of teaching to test. the heart and soul of the educational experience is gone.

And thank you to Orwellian_Ghost also.

For that you must be punished.

is complicit in the ongoing destruction of public education or just horribly ill-informed I do not know.

To say that something in his administration might fall short of perfection is an attack, as the zealots see it.

I exaggerate, but not by much. It has just about become impossible to have a real conversation around here, thanks to the loyalty enforcers.

After my rec still in the negative. It seems the neo-liberal privatizers don't like public services.

there is not a dime's worth of difference between the Republicans and the Democrats.

Any thread that implies that something somewhere in America is not hunky dory is seen as an attack on The Leader, and the loyalty enforcers pour in and hump the unrec button to hell and back, kind of like they used to do with the alert button when someone had the temerity to post something other than a pinup thread.

And btw, I voted for Obama.

...I. And I still want him to succeed...even in making public schools the best they can be. He is, for whatever reason, headed down the wrong track. BTW, if you haven't read ED.gov, here's a link:

http://www.edgovblogs.org/duncan/2009/05/secretary-arne-duncan-takes-listening-tour-online-invites-comments-on-raising-standards/

:hi:

And thanks for responding. Yes, I read ED.gov but am not convinced at all that they are really listening.

...responses of teachers describe exactly the innovation we need. Just the common sharing of both the problems of and solutions for our public schools is enlightening. If only the 'powers that be' could listen to the collective wisdom of the nation's teachers. :patriot:

but will be back tonight to see how this thread is doing. Again, thank you to those of you who have supported it.

One more boot before I leave the house. Can't give up easily.

Please provide one shred of evidence supporting the current administration's proposals for putting the previous administration's efforts to undermine public education on steroids. You do not post because you do not want to face the truth.

and still haven't left my house hoping to get support for this thread. Guess I'm an idiot.

and some who wish to see this thread conveniently disappear. I won't let it. I'll be back tonight.

For a long time, public schools in New Orleans have needed profound changes to improve quality, but the privatization of schools is destroying the entire school system. Certified, career teachers are being replaced by low-paid, uncertified, Teach for America kids, and art, language, and dance classes are being sacrificed at the all mighty alter of "math and science'... I suppose they will soon include Bible Studies in the curriculum.

from a poster who will not bother to provide evidence to support the Duncan/Gingrich/Sharpon sham?

posted for that unrec.

Sorry.

some recs (and unrecs) but no discussion.

are being distracted with fake health care wars. Do they really think that the powers in Washington don't already know where they are gonna go with health care? They play games and people are like sheep.

education was over. Everyone blamed Bush for the little children being subjected to high stress testing. Now we have the three stooges conspiring to take over free education for our kids. They claim they have a better way, but they do not have research to prove it other than data that reflects what they want it to reflect. One thing that is very clear is, if they were serious about improving education, they would ask teachers for input. Arne and company have ignored National Board Certified teachers. They do not ask the opinion of experts. Arne has never taught a class in his life. His mom ran a daycare and he says that is why he is an expert. They have a catchy new phrase, but it is the same bullshit.

The overwhelming bulk of evidence weighs heavily against merit pay for teachers and the expansion of charter schools. And I'm not one who blamed only Bush and the Republicans. The Democrats were and are into this up to their eyeballs.

...I ran a classroom, an after school program, organized programs on conflict resolution, and went back to school to get my administrative credential...all this while raising children and grandchildren...so what does that make me? :7

It's not a "hot" enough topic. Unless you are bashing schools or teachers; then it will get plenty of support.

Of course, now that there is a Democratic administration that promotes union-busting and privatization, and the "unrecommend" feature, you are going to get plenty of partisans who will unrec any thread that comments negatively on the administration, no matter how deserved.

Still, there are still supporters of public ed on DU; you just happened to hit a time when they aren't at their 'puters.

Thanks for trying.

I understand. Give me credit for persistence though!

for the recs. And would the people who "unrec" please defend your position? I'm all for civil discourse.

who have as much business driving public education reform as I have designing a craft to send people to Mars.

...Funny! :7

Give me credit for persistence.

...http://gov.ca.gov/press-release/13028

And shame on California's governor.

The Education Standing Committee of the National Conference of State Legislatures has come out against national standards and forcing states to lift their charter school caps if they do not use that desperately needed money as top-down control demands.


If you go to the NCSL link below you have to scroll down a bit to read their statements about lifting charter school caps and the imposition of national standards. They oppose both:


http://www.ncsl.org/Default.aspx?TabID=773&tabs=855,22,634#Public_Charter

I have argued elsewhere that we should join forces and try to get the NCSL to challenge the Obama/Duncan team to participate in nationally televised debates about the merits of their reform proposals. Fair and democratic debates where they are not allowed to control the questions, the questioner, and the mike. It has gone nowhere.

...a good idea, but it seems Obama and Duncan have their plan set. Debate would rock the boat...so would loud teacher voices. Now that the NEA has taken a position, the stage seems set for both...especially in California and New York.

Thank you for the link. :)

Hoping Yvonne and any other supporters come back.

...:7

an "unrec" has posted any defense for that action.

out of the thread title.

That'll get you at least a hundred recs in an hour or so.

...:7

... ;)

...:rofl:

And thanks for the meme of "education deform". NGU! :hi:

:)

I agree that teachers should be in charge of education, or at least have some input.

--imm

...the scapegoat for everything that is wrong in public schools. THAT lie needs to be countered. JMHO.