In 1983, Hillary Clinton Teamed With Walmart To Attack Public Education...

[AzDar]

from the link:

The things a high-level U.S. political operative like Hillary Clinton says and does at the beginning of her career are absolutely central to her rise within the establishment. We must understand this and pay attention accordingly. Here is Hillary, at the beginning of her career, in her own words:

“Over and over again I was asked, ‘What are you going to do about all the incompetent teachers?'” Mrs. Clinton told the Arkansas Democrat-Gazette in 1983, the then governor of Arkansas, Bill Clinton, appointed Hillary to head a task force on education. She teamed up with Sam Walton, founder of Walmart, and other elites in Arkansas to get an education bill passed that instituted a punitive regime of standardized testing for students and skills tests for teachers. This was, if not the first, one of the first salvos in the reactionary war on public education. In fact, she may have helped to inspire the ruling class to make their push to outright own our education system.



Clinton has for three decades consistently fought for the kinds of right-wing corporate education reforms that have the country’s schools and millions of children teetering on the edge of the abyss. In 1989 she reflected on her 1983 education bill saying, “For all the pain and agony and terrible feelings it engendered, I’d do it again.”

Hillary Clinton certainly comes off as a progressive in comparison to vile racists like Donald Trump and Ted Cruz. But the fact remains that no one running for president has anywhere near Hillary’s actual track record of thoroughly reactionary policy making and destroying millions upon millions of people’s lives. It is time for a different path for our children and everybody else–a country and a world where education is about equality and justice and not about the narrow plans of profit-hungry billionaires.

more at link : http://www.liberationnews.org/in-1983-clinton-teamed-walmart-to-attack-public-education/

[Thinkingabout]

1. Did Hillary do anything to help with education? Maybe the facts should be checked, she has fought

for education for a long time, is there any other candidate who has fought as much for education of children, no, I will help you with the answer, so doing something is better than doing nothing.

[SoLeftIAmRight]

2. I love my new DU - Ignore Edition -- welcome to the list

still picking out the strays

[CalvinballPro]

4. Lucky for the rest of us that it works both ways. Goodbye.

[SoLeftIAmRight]

6. another stray

many thanks

[AzDar]

3. Doing something destructive is better than doing nothing? Sounds like her Foreign Policy mantra, too

Some crazy shit, right there...

[SamKnause]

12. Crazy shit indeed.

I feel like I am living in bizzaro world.

[Thinkingabout]

19. Got the answer I thought.

[Dragonfli]

20. That is her foreign policy mantra. Henceforth I shall call doing something destructive

Is better than doing nothing "The Clinton Doctrine" it's like the Bush doctrine but with 40% more Destruction!
On sale now at polling places and Clinton Foundations neat you.

[font size="1"] *No rules of engagement shall apply, no cluster bombing or innocent live spared, we reserve the right to torture at our discretion.[/font]

[LisaM]

5. A little tidbit from a Sanders essay on education in 1974.....

"A child has an old bitch of a teacher (and there are many of them), or perhaps he is simply not interested in school and would rather be doing other thing. [sic] He complains and rebels against the situation, which is the healthy reaction. When a person is hurt, no matter what age, he SHOULD rebel…. Outwardly, he becomes the "good boy", [sic] conforming to the rules and regulations of the system. Inwardly, his spirit is broken, and his soul seethes with anger and hatred, which is unable to be expressed. He has learned to hold back his emotions and put on the phony façade of pleasantness. Thirty years later, a doctor tells him he has cancer."


Clearly, this is still how he feels today!!!! Old bitches of teachers (of which there are many) cause cancer!!

[KingFlorez]

8. That's some really great logic about education

Real sound leadership right there

[AzDar]

9. That affects Hillary's destructive Walmart Education Policies how? Try to stay on topic...

[LisaM]

13. Oh, I see. We only get to revisit one candidate's past views on education.

It is on topic, feel free to cast a wider net.

[AzDar]

16. Did Bernie team with Walmart to pass destructive Educational Policies?

[LisaM]

18. You're linking to a very biased source that misrepresents what happened.

Please read another take on it (I'm guessing you're posting based on a misleading headline, anyway).

~The schools in Arkansas were dismal, by many measures the worst in the country — last or close in per-pupil expenditures, teacher salaries, the percentage of high school graduates who went on to college. The state had more illiterates than college graduates. She was forthright in her assessment. This was unacceptable. School here, she stressed, was going to get harder because it had to get harder. `

http://www.politico.com/magazine/story/2015/04/hillary-clinton-2016-arkansas-116939

I quoted Bernie verbatim, and I can also dig up an article on how his wife denied professors tenure (claiming her college was too small) and fired a popular teacher with three weeks left in the school year, despite strenuous objections from the students.

[CalvinballPro]

7. Still not as bad as Sanders teaming up with the NRA to arm people who attack, and kill, other people

[libdem4life]

10. One-liner...wrong. The NRA doesn't "team up" with those it gives D- ratings to.

Maybe you didn't know that, but now you do, please integrate it into your future postings. It sounds a bit uninformed.

[AzDar]

11. Sanders has a D- rating from the NRA, while Hillary takes their dirty money...

We're attempting to discuss Hillary's destructive Educational Policies here...

[LisaM]

14. So the race Bernie Sanders won with NRA backing doesn't count as taking their money?

https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/how-the-nra-helped-put-bernie-sanders-in-congress/2015/07/19/ed1be26c-2bfe-11e5-bd33-395c05608059_story.html

[AzDar]

17. Call me crazy, but 'taking money' means TAKING MONEY... I guess Clinton supporters have to have...

different 'definitions' of 'things' in order to rationalize their support of such a candidate...

[Tierra_y_Libertad]

21. Which is not nearly as bad as Hillary teaming up with Bush to kill hundreds of thousands of people.

[tk2kewl]

15. “Over and over again I was asked, ‘What are you going to do about all the incompetent teachers?'”

Over and over the people ask: what are we going to do about the corrupt politicians?

[eppur_se_muova]

22. Only the "reformers" ever asked that. Like the hordes of welfare queens, these were a fiction.

Everything she says is so carefully parsed. “Over and over again I was asked by the people who stand to make huge profits off of privatizing education, ‘What are you going to do about all the incompetent teachers who exist only in our own mythology?'”

[amborin]

23. K&R