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RandySF

(57,632 posts)
Mon Sep 3, 2012, 02:19 AM Sep 2012

Democratic Split Over Education Reform Tested By Hollywood Movie

WASHINGTON -- The most controversial thing to happen at the Democratic National Convention this week may end up being a movie screening.

On Monday afternoon, a Hollywood film called "Won't Back Down" -- which opens in theaters nationwide on Sept. 28 -- will be shown to a select crowd of convention-goers in Charlotte, N.C., just as it was one week prior at the Republican National Convention in Tampa, Fla.

But unlike Tampa, where the promoters had little concern about making waves with the party establishment and had no trouble when they ran the idea past the Republican National Committee, the request for a Charlotte screening went to the highest levels of the Obama administration, which passed the decision off to the Democratic National Committee, according to a source with knowledge of the chain of events. According to this source, Valerie Jarrett, Obama's close personal adviser, and David Plouffe, his top political adviser, both saw the request but eventually handed the decision over to the DNC's political director, Patrick Gaspard, who raised no objections.

In Tampa, the movie received an overwhelmingly positive response. During one pivotal scene involving Viola Davis' character and her son, people could be heard crying throughout the theater.



http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/09/02/dnc-education-reform_n_1850089.html

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Democratic Split Over Education Reform Tested By Hollywood Movie (Original Post) RandySF Sep 2012 OP
It won't go over as big in Charlotte as it did in Tampa liberal_at_heart Sep 2012 #1
They passed the responsibility to the bureaucrat to avoid flak. Regardless, the Obama HiPointDem Sep 2012 #2
I forgot about that liberal_at_heart Sep 2012 #3

liberal_at_heart

(12,081 posts)
1. It won't go over as big in Charlotte as it did in Tampa
Mon Sep 3, 2012, 03:48 AM
Sep 2012

The republicans ideas on education reform aren't working, but just like we complain when they have no ideas we have to come up with a plan of our own. The public knows the public schools are failing their children. We as a party have to come up with a platform for getting proper funding to schools. I know in my state our own supreme court has stated that our state government is not living up to its constitutional right to fund school. Our state government is in violation of its own state constitution to properly fund schools. I have a child in special education and the class size for the special education classroom is the same as the general education classroom. The children in our general education classrooms don't get the attention they need from their teacher because of class size. How are the special education children suppose to cope with not having enough instruction from their teacher?

 

HiPointDem

(20,729 posts)
2. They passed the responsibility to the bureaucrat to avoid flak. Regardless, the Obama
Mon Sep 3, 2012, 04:07 AM
Sep 2012

administration is fully behind education "reform" -- the entire rotten package, including the "parent tricker."

A gun that fires only one way. You can't sign a petition to convert back to a public school if you don't like the results.

liberal_at_heart

(12,081 posts)
3. I forgot about that
Mon Sep 3, 2012, 04:25 AM
Sep 2012

Well sometimes we have to put a little pressure on to make sure he leans back a little more to the left. Sometimes he leans just a little too far to the right in the spirit of compromise. Compromise is good if both parties are willing to compromise. Well we all know just how willing to compromise the republicans are.

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