I will NEVER "heal" from what was done to me almost three years ago; I am on a downward spiral and don't really see a way I can reverse the situation. However, the assholes at WCSD are doing better than ever, and they aren't held accountable for ANYTHING. They and the WEA really are a gang of crooks, of thieves.
How would privatization make it better? It would be even worse, but until we recognize the real problem, and that's with administrators and the fact they treat administrative law, union agreements, and federal law as toilet paper to be flushed down the toilet along with the teachers they destroy, no change for the better will ever happen.
Karen Horwitz from NAPTA, commenting after the piece:
Not let's consider the track record of bankers and Wall Street and analyze what is wrong with this picture whereby they think they should take the lead in education reform. When they "reformed" real estate with subprime mortgages, and "reformed" Wall St. with derivatives it led us to where? And there goals were preserving the democracy or stuffing as much money in their pockets? Do we recall which one?
It is time we substituted "bilk" for "reform" and we will know exactly what is going on in education. Check out WhiteChalkCrime.com and EndTeacherAbuse.org if you REALLY want to know what is going on. The alternative is to watch education implode as did real estate; the same type of agenda is in place. However, when it implodes it implodes our democracy as they are connected at the hip. And then who will pick up the pieces? Do we want the greedy creating a civil society in their image? Better yet, would the greedy even entertain the need for a civil society when money and power are their chosen tools for navigating in this world? Money and power substitute for a civil democracy, the former purpose of an educated populace.
If all of this sounds way too incredible, just think Bernie Madoff and his sinister Ponzi scheme. All it takes is charm, connections, and greed and one can fool a lot of people. We have a bunch of mini Bernie Madoff's at the helms of schools all over this nation with a press blaming teachers, unions, and parents rather than blaming these thieves in place to bilk all of us of the foundation of our democracy. (This is the same press that didn't notice the subprime scam.)
This brilliant strategy of pitting parents against teachers and their unions is at the core of this Ponzi-like success for it is true that unions are at the center of the "reform" that is really bilking, while it is not true that the unions represent or even care about dedicated teachers. And it is not true that the unions are on a different side than these mini Bernie Madoffs. As the unions and administrations play good cop, bad cop while reforming, no bilking, our schools with the media's blessings, the public is left clueless.
Become educated or expect an end to public education as we know it. Yes, the unions deserve our contempt, but not unless their bed partners - the administrators and school boards - are held in contempt equally. Learn about White Chalk Crime. It makes Bernie Madoff's antics seem like nothing. There is organized crime in education that Diane Ravitch has yet to bring to the surface. It keeps Diane Ravitch from television, stuck at the right fork of the road where if she could venture down it, her dedication and brilliance could solve these problems.
Instead we all speak in circles while our schools are being "reformed/bilked." Time to focus on White Chalk Crime as only then will any of this change.
Posted by: teacherkh | December 28, 2010 11:06 PM | Report abuse
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