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Re: Michelle Rhee's Plan to Destroy Public Education
Posted:
Oct 6, 2012 7:58 PM
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Proof positive that conservatives don't believe their own propaganda.
(You know, "government can't do anything right" and blah blah ad
nauseam.)
On Sat, Oct 6, 2012 at 3:15 PM, Wayne Bishop <wbishop@calstatela.edu> wrote:
> 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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