It is really hard to read all the news on Education. It is depressing to no end.
Some of the bad news:
Disability scandal involving a charter school, with a scheme diverting $$$ towards their own pockets. What is really sad is these mentally challenged children are viewed by these people with $$ in their eyes–just like the medical profession. These children will receive the minimal of instruction to optimize the profit margin.
The moral and spiritual bankruptcy of corporate reformers.
The magical Michelle Rhee.
Arne Duncan blasts “armchair pundits”….just like John Kerry…a politician that thinks the public’s opinion doesn’t matter. Duncan degrades the public as no-nothings not worth his time. He ignores that educators are among the public who are speaking out against corporate profiteering of public schools.
Here’s a post disputing Bill Gates’ *cough* facts. (hat tip Diane Ravitch)
Does anybody else see the irony of Gates, a college dropout, deliberately being deceptive on the numbers of college graduates in the U.S.? Not only is he a hypocrite, but a lying one at that….
And again, it bears repeating over and over that a college degree is no guarantee of a job. And there are those who do not want a degree but still need to be paid a living wage.
Gates’ money torpedoing public education through devious means. $173 MILLION. What a creep.
Indianapolis schools ground zero. Yep.
This is just too, too ridiculous. We have no toilet paper, but gee whiz, we have a shiny new sports arena!!
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