Once Upon a Time

people actually revered teachers even though they were paid very little for their efforts. People back then knew what public education was all about, but thanks to propaganda beginning with the fraudulent A Nation at Risk in 1983, teachers are held in almost lower esteem than attorneys or used car salesmen.

It's all on purpose to get people geared up for the day when they will work for pennies an hour and never, ever be able to attain upward mobility. People can go fucking die for all these elites care. In the meantime, everybody who works in public institutions must be demonized and destroyed in order for these elites' third world fantasies to come true.

The NYT, of course, has been in the forefront of lying about education, tenure, and teachers. Is it any wonder people are swallowing the bullshit hook, line, and sinker?

But what happens when eventually the teacher supply dries up? Who in their right mind would go into a field where they cannot even make a career out of it but have their lives and livelihood destroyed after two or three years of constant abuse by administrators if they don't teach to the test? I am sure the ultimate goal of the privatizers is distance learning for students "taught" by slave-wage "teachers" in India or China, who will never know how to work with others, like many if not most homeschooled kids, be basically ignorant of the world around them, and will take any kind of garbage the powers-that-be want.

If education is in bad shape, blame that corrupt son-of-a-bitch in the White House. The next presidential election can't come soon enough to get rid of this fraud, this neoliberal.