Seriously, these folks are running schools by script. Unbelievable. (from Diane Ravitch’s blog)
As Diane says, it’s dangerous to speak out….but this has been going on in the private sector for quite some time–somehow, one’s right to Freedom of Speech stops at the corporate door.
So now it has reached the Education doors….and that is why Bill Clinton, Bill Gates, et al, have tried to destroy teacher’s unions. It’s much harder to fire a teacher who speaks out against corruption when that teacher belongs to a strong union that stands behind her or him. That’s kind of the bully playbook—separate people into aloneness, and attack. It’s much easier to take one down than a group.
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More on Education--this post is just sickening. Depressing as hell that Pearson has now monopolized the United States Education system.
This post from Mom of Five is alarming:
My daughter’s principal just informed me that she doubts any California district will ever order a textbook again: Everything bought in the future will be digital. Her school has pretty much phased out textbooks already and at my mom’s high school the district just got rid of over 4,000 books from the library. Even though the high school has just been built (3 weeks ago) I find it sad that the library is very small. Instead, there are numerous “student lounges” where kids go to hang out.
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Really disturbing. Of course, the technology terrorists will wrap this in a “progress” blanket to quash any objections to it. We’ve been sold this line of garbage that anything new in technology is automatically a good thing and means we are “progressing”. What does that mean, exactly? They don’t really say. All it is is something “new”. They know that marketers put “new” and “improved” on can labels so that consumers will buy it…doesn’t matter that it’s the same stuff as before and “improved” is a subjective word.
And if you notice the comment of teachingeconomist, the resident troll, he uses the word “nostalgic” as a code word for “you’re so far behind the times clinging to the past…” to shut people up…
I see farther down the comments that Mom of Five had the same sentiment:
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Oh yeah, I forgot the best part…she let me know that the reason I’m having a problem with all this is because “us older parents” have a difficult time with change and moving into the global 21st century.”
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Diane has probably blogged on this, but with all the information out there, I have trouble keeping up–Valerie Strauss (God love her) has this up on the Bush connection to this education fiasco.
More here from an old post at dailykos. I think I may have posted this before–but doesn’t hurt to repost…easier to keep up with the octopus of education $$.
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