Julian Velasquez Heilig has a post up on the laughable (or not) edumucation mis-counting of school scores…um, yeah, if the Keystone cops could be Keystone Analysts….this is what they would look like–bumbling over themselves.
It’s a miracle…
well, wait a minute…it isn’t…
…yes, yes, it is….
No, no, it isn’t….
Oh, just stop paying attention to facts and think what we tell you to think…!
…oh, and yes, we in Indiana are certainly trying to keep up with Texas….
Diane Ravitch posted a touching observation by a reader.
This has got to be one of the most profound letters I’ve read to date. It is truly a great assessment of the misinformation campaign being run by the Gates Foundation and the others profiting off of our children. No educators were included in creating Common Core!! Red flags right there. Be sure to follow the link that begins “entire body of social science…” –it leads to a Washington Post article by Valerie Strauss. In it there is a link to a protest letter signed by educators and other professionals against Common Core—lots of good information there.
Megalomaniacal Gates seems to think that every child should be manipulated towards a career in the technology field….everyone should be just like himself…? Probably thinks he’s the new Messiah, too. God help us.
**edited to clarify
From Diane Ravitch: Peter DeWitt Is Outraged by New York State Tests.
This is such a compelling letter–how can anyone claim that teachers are not dedicated?
I’m angry that I continue to have teachers step outside of the box…very brave teachers, and get pummeled because their children did not do well on state tests…that they were never supposed to do well on in the first place.
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Exactly. The game has been exposed–kids were never supposed to pass these tests. It was designed to fail them and their schools.
…just so some hedge fund manager, bankers, etc. could make a fast buck.
They’re protesting ALEC in Chicago as I type…the tweets are keeping tabs on what is going on. Badass Teachers Association is there. Others have reported rough treatment by Chicago Police.
https://twitter.com/aaroncynic/status/365556308516151297/photo/1
Well, now, there is much more to the story than just the unethical toad Daniel Loeb’s millions towards charter schools. The creeps on Wall Street see a gold mine in Charters….they can’t lose. And it’s not just unethical investors in the U.S., but foreign investors looking to make a fast buck off of American children. and get a green card to the U.S.
Why does it not surprise me that Bill Clinton allowed this to happen by signing into law effing tax breaks for these monstrosities?? Good God, how does this creep get away with soo much? Is there no one who will stand up to him and HIllary? WTH?!
What’s that giant sucking sound…?
It’s millionaire bankers, hedge fund managers, the Walton family, and foreign investors draining our public schools dry.
Sometimes I wish my hunches weren’t right, then I wouldn’t have to see the workings of unethical toads like Daniel Loeb. (hat tip to Diane Ravitch).
Yep. He’s a union buster. And is putting millions towards destroying them and the public school system.
It’s clear to me with the new information that Loeb is a conservative who probably sees the movie industry as supporting liberals, and wants to destroy it. He puts money into schools that seek to destroy the creative by micromanaging them, so it’s not a big leap that he wants to destroy the creative in movies. Just my guess.
<sigh> it took a Freedom of Information request by the AP to get this.
I rather doubt that it’s only been twelve times. And the troubling thing is that the EPA only considers human life valuable:
In a statement to the AP, the EPA defended its oversight of offshore fracking, saying its system ensures the practice does not pollute the environment in a way that would endanger human health.
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…because killing whales and fish isn’t important. Neither is contaminating the ocean water…oh, wait…the oil companies are putting freshy clean water back into the ocean when they’re done putting nasty chemicals that they won’t name into the ocean floor. I mean, there is no waaay that the oil companies would lie or minimize their impact. /snark
Really hard to deny the massive incidents when you see this.
You can’t even see Indiana from all the “incidents”. Nor Illinois nor Ohio. And Texas! A state that size that is practically obliterated by the dots should be up in arms about this. Some folks are wisening up, though–unfortunately, it’s after they become sick and unable to put up much of a fight.
I found this timeline on wikipedia. It’s pretty hard to deny how dirty this business is and how careless they are. Why should they care? They have Congress bought off….
Not only that, here are nuclear and radiation accidents…
…makes you feel all warm and cozy, doesn’t it? No?
My worst fears that I blogged about on that pile of pet coke in Detroit…Good God. And the Koch brothers get away with murder….oh, it doesn’t look like murder because people die more slowly from emphysema, heart disease, and lung disease and God-knows-what-else….but it’s murder just the same. Just because one doesn’t see blood spurting doesn’t mean the guilty are innocent. Unconscionable.
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