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Item: Davis Guggenheim has an epiphany about schooling in America while driving past three--count 'em--public schools to take his kids to the private school where they get the best education money can buy. Money he admits he earns because his union, the Directors' Guild, demands that entertainers be adequately compensated and their "creative process" protected.
Guggenheim says that his is a "good union." As opposed to teachers who organize to seek similar control over their working conditions and due process: bad unions. He claims that teachers' unions "make bad policy" (unions only wish they could control policy). And he says all this with a complete lack of guile. I'm OK (and so is my union); teachers, on the other hand, are not OK.
Maybe we should be turning to John Dewey, instead of the zeitgeist.
"What the best and wisest parent wants for his own child, that must the community want for all of its children."
It strikes me that a lot of the Famous People who are "speaking out" on education, capturing the public imagination and crafting these deliciously heart-rending stories--zeitgeisty types--are precisely the people who drive past public schools and other unpleasant realities on the way to their real lives. Pretty much the same way emergency rescue teams and Heckuvajob Brownie went right past the 20,000 miserable human beings huddled in the Superdome, six years ago.
The "advantages" of destroying an entire educational community in a devastating, lethal--and preventable--flood? Really? Shameful.
more . . .
http://blogs.edweek.org/teachers/teacher_in_a_strange_land/2010/09/katrina_nation_driving_past_public_schools.html
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