Obama Ed Policies Cause Blowback - What Will it Cost in the Election?

[Smarmie Doofus]

Obama Ed Policies Cause Blowback - What Will it Cost in the Election?
I gave generously in 2008. I will not give.
I walked miles and knocked on doors. I will not knock.
I will vote Green for President.
Betrayal by a friend is the worst betrayal of all.
----Carol Burris, HS principal

Did you ever think that hundreds of thousands of teachers throughout the country are refusing to contribute as they did in 2008 because the Democratic Party, from the White House on down, has cynically blamed teachers for the nation's dismal record of poverty and inequality. ---- Mark Naison
A highly placed union official recently said that there is an expectation that teachers will vote for Obama despite the anger of so many at his deformed ed policies. But the worry was that they would not put themselves out in any way to actually work for him. I certainly won't be getting up on an early Sunday morning to drive to Allentown. (I’m going to Obama with a banjo on my knee). In fact I am voting Green, as many educators in NYC are.

Mark Naison posted:
To all the Democratic Party leaders and Move On organizers who are deluging us with emails complaining that Republicans are raising more money than Democrats- Did you ever think that hundreds of thousands of teachers throughout the country are refusing to contribute as they did in 2008 because the Democratic Party, from the White House on down, has cynically blamed teachers for the nation's dismal record of poverty and inequality. I know a lot of teachers who plan to vote for President Obama; but precious few who will campaign for him or give money until the Administration's education policies begin to change.

Carol Burris, one of the most respected voices in education, a high school principal of the highest level, won't vote for Obama and to me that spells trouble for the Democrats who have led the assault on teachers, from Rahm Emanuel to Andrew Cuomo.
I gave generously in 2008. I will not give.
I walked miles and knocked on doors. I will not knock.
I will vote Green for President.
Betrayal by a friend is the worst betrayal of all.
http://ednotesonline.blogspot.com/2012/08/obama-ed-policies-cause-blowback-what.html

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1. Carol Burris is an idiot, then

Voting Green gave us 8 years of George Bush. How the fuck did that work out for ya, huh?

[BeyondGeography]

2. Educators in NYC voting Green

Now that's a ballsy statement.

[lamp_shade]

3. Hundreds of thousands of teachers? Sounds like Mitch McConnell's "Vast Majority

of Americans" pronouncements. The 4 teachers I know personally (MI, NY, FL) LOVE Obama and, as far as I can tell, seem to be very happy with his education policies.

[rateyes]

4. teacher here. I will vote for Obama, but will not work for him...

Arne Duncan has cut the rug out from under teachers. He has to go along with his anti-teacher policies.

[Smarmie Doofus]

5. I'm where you are. At least right now. n/t

[exboyfil]

6. Cui bono?

Why is Obama propping up an approach that is so universally hated?

[Smarmie Doofus]

7. In the first place, he doesn't know what he's talking about.

He never attended a public school in the USA. His children have never attended a public school in the USA. He has zero personal experience with public schools in the USA.

Secondly, it's NOT universally hated. It's hated by most of the people in the trenches, who actually work in the field, who see RTTP and NCLB and their ramifications close-up, every day, as as part of their professional lives.


On the contrary, it's *beloved* by Republicans, RW think tanks, newspaper publishers and billionaire media moguls, anti-unionists of all varieties, accommodationist DEMs who thing this is a good issue on which to appear "flexible", and people whose instinct it is to trust what they are being told about education by MSM and by their elected officials. ESPECIALLY if their elected officials are nominally progressive Democrats.