Reply #169: LET'S TALK FOR A SEC ABOUT EDUCATION, mmmmkay?

[MrMickeysMom]

Billions of dollars to schools under this administration, is it? I beg to differ...

The problem is that Sec. Duncan has made it an issue to fire LOTS of teachers. There is national drumbeat to drive privatization into this void, taking money out of the public school system. What happens when the money goes away from the public school system? You end up with more students being sucked out of public schools. There's no control over the latest version of this privatization. How predictable.

Have we any control over that quality? You certainly don't get it by chasing magic "let it rise to the top" bullets, or whatever the latest phrase of privatized cheerleading is. Right... let's fire large numbers of teachers, hire cheap labor teachers, and chase test scores... it's horse shit.

You don't take a written test in life, you PERFORM in life. In order TO perform in life, you need to have teachers all the way up and down the line to TO PREPARE YOU for life. Believe it or not, there is good public curriculum involved in blue ribbon districts, the same schools able to integrate critical thinking objectives across K - 12 . The better example of that is secondary education to the college and vocational based curriculum. I can tell you that as someone who has had to do that at the bedside post secondary to the job market. Training health care practitioners is an example how you might want to have this education.

While you're thinking about that, take another look about where "the left" is on public education after seeing where the "good jobs" have gone .. They've gone overseas...

Take you privatized national school agenda and go down to Wendy's to flip burgers... that is, unless they've closed already.

You think education is expensive? Try stupidity.

One more thing.. something (I didn't love) that I read today. It explains the mindset of that privatized education you seem to be okay with...

And when you read about America in European newspapers, what you are likely to find is a tone bordering on pity. The U.S. is depicted as a fraying empire of obesity, ignorance, debt, gridlock, stagnation, and mindless war. Sure, the iPad is cool, but it is evidence of what America was, not what it will be again. The stories are not angry, accusatory, or even ideological. It’s worse: they are condescendingly elegiac.

I cringe with their morbid pity comments because I see it given the RAH-RAH by your comment.


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