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Re: Michelle Rhee's Plan to Destroy Public Education
Posted:
Oct 6, 2012 3:15 PM
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You know, Bob, private armies are so much more efficient than that
damnable public monopoly.
Wayne
At 07:58 AM 10/6/2012, Paul Tanner wrote:
>But I did not answer my own questions.
>
>One of the fundamentals of economic conservatism is that privatization
>is always better, that private entities always do things better than
>public entities.
>
>So no one has answered my questions.
>
>On Sat, Oct 6, 2012 at 10:53 AM, Robert Hansen <bob@rsccore.com> wrote:
> > Paul, you answered your own question. I have said before that my
> district doesn't suffer 25% of the problems we see in other
> districts or that we discuss here. Why? Because we are conservative
> and so is our school board. However, you have to stay on your toes
> and monitor their every move. Students with less affluent parents
> do not fare as well. It would be easier with the finnish system for
> sure, across the board. Mainly, a school system that dotes on the
> aspirations of the students rather than one that uses them (and the
> teachers) for political purposes.
> >
> > Bob Hansen
> >
> >
> > On Oct 4, 2012, at 10:20 AM, Paul Tanner <upprho@gmail.com> wrote:
> >
> >> I keep asking such questions as this question and conservatives keep
> >> running away from them:
> >>
> >> First: The most conservative school districts in the country
> >> (districts in which the vast majority of voters are so conservative
> >> they always vote into power and keep voting into power even the most
> >> conservative people at every level of government including those like
> >> Michele Bachmann) always have refused to privatize their own public
> >> school systems, even though they could because of their absolute power
> >> as being such a large voting majority. (That means that that so-called
> >> mafia has no power to stop it if that vast majority wanted to actually
> >> do it.)
> >>
> >> So, here's the question:
> >>
> >> If such privatization is such a great idea, then why haven't they done
> >> it when all this time they have had the absolute power to do it if
> >> they wanted to?
> >>
> >> If you think that the answer is too obvious, then here's the
> followup question:
> >>
> >> Why haven't they wanted to?
> >>
> >> On Thu, Oct 4, 2012 at 1:36 AM, Haim <hpipik@netzero.com> wrote:
> >>> Jerry P. Becker Posted: Oct 3, 2012 7:01 PM
> >>>
> >>> ****************************
> >>> From Diane Ravitch's Blog [A site to discuss better education
> for all], Tuesday, October 2, 2012. See
> >>>
> http://dianeravitch.net/2012/10/02/michelle-rhees-plan-to-destroy-public-education/
> >>> ****************************
> >>> Michelle Rhee's Plan to Destroy Public Education
> >>>
> >>> Michelle Rhee is is a one-person PAC. She is raising hundreds
> of millions of dollars from rightwing billionaires and foundations
> and corporations to subsidize her program.
> >>>
> >>> What is her program? Destroy teachers' unions; eliminate tenure
> and seniority; privatize public education. Having failed to
> transform the public schools of the District of Columbia, she now
> wants to privatize public education everywhere.
> >>> ****************************
> >>>
> >>> It is a commentary on our age that an article like this could
> be written by one scholar and published by another. It is an echo
> from a past that, I thought, had faded away. It seems I am mistaken.
> >>>
> >>> Louis XIV is famously reputed to have said, "L'etat, c'est
> moi." Whether or not he actually said those words, in the Age of
> Kings he might as well have said them because that was both the the
> general view and the harsh reality. And, the further east one
> went, the truer it was.
> >>>
> >>> This idea, that the individual embodied the state or the
> institution or the corporation, echoes into our age, at least in
> the customs of the U.S. Navy. So, for example, when Admiral Nimitz
> was about to walk into a room, the officers would be called to
> attention with the announcement, "Pacific Fleet Arriving", and in
> would walk Chester Nimitz, the embodiment of that force.
> >>>
> >>> It is this history and this tradition that comes to mind with
> the title of the essay, "Michelle Rhee's Plan to Destroy Public
> Education", and we read that her plan is to destroy the teachers'
> unions. This article tells us everything we need to know about the
> mentality of the Education Mafia. They think they are
> sovereign. They think they are public education in just the same
> way Louis XIV thought he was France.
> >>>
> >>> This is what they think. What do you think about this arrogance?
> >>>
> >>> Haim
> >>> No representation without taxation.
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