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Bok_Tukalo

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10. The Good School Bad School distillation process

Reply to n2doc (Original post)

Tue Feb 5, 2013, 03:17 PM

Feb 2013

From the article:

Usually mothers would request meetings with me during the school selection process that takes place each January and February.

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She had applied to those schools and a number of others through a lottery process that allowed out-of-boundary students to attend certain schools.

What happens is the motivated parents, instead of working to improve their neighborhood schools, work to leave those schools and the distillation process results in very good and very bad schools.

The advent of so-called "choice" in the public school system has been a disaster which causes rising costs and neighborhood degradation.

The quickest way to kill a community is to kill its schools.

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Michelle Rhee: My Break With the Democrats [View all] n2doc Feb 2013 OP

She was on John Stewart yesterday. It is worth watching as John Stewart called her on her lies Mass Feb 2013 #1

Its her break with sanity thats most worrying DJ13 Feb 2013 #2

I honestly don't care what party she belongs to proud2BlibKansan Feb 2013 #3

So a disagreement on a couple issues means she's no longer a Democrat? FBaggins Feb 2013 #4

She wrote the article about breaking with Democrats. madfloridian Feb 2013 #5

Yes... but NOT an article about leaving the party. FBaggins Feb 2013 #6

Actually she fits right in with the Dem party on education reform. madfloridian Feb 2013 #11

You're exactly right. FBaggins Feb 2013 #12

Democrats flee StudentsFirst, cite conservative policy stance HiPointDem Feb 2013 #13

I didn't know Friess did the intro to "Obsession" Starry Messenger Feb 2013 #14

they already are associated; koch = donor HiPointDem Feb 2013 #16

Thank you! Starry Messenger Feb 2013 #17

"Rhee says she is no longer a democrat" FBaggins Feb 2013 #15

she wrote an article called 'my break with the democrats' and she openly consorts with kochs and HiPointDem Feb 2013 #19

No. She didn't. FBaggins Feb 2013 #21

That one does. HiPointDem Feb 2013 #23

Sorry... it really doesn't. FBaggins Feb 2013 #24

Education deform is a policy developed in republican think tanks and pushed by both parties, in HiPointDem Feb 2013 #27

If it's "pushed by both parties"... FBaggins Feb 2013 #29

the dividing line is vouchers and consorting with republican funders like koch and republican HiPointDem Feb 2013 #33

Go to hell Ms Rhee mwrguy Feb 2013 #7

Rhee is nothing more than a grifter Angry Dragon Feb 2013 #8

She addresses the wrong issues. reteachinwi Feb 2013 #9

The Good School Bad School distillation process Bok_Tukalo Feb 2013 #10

Her statement about sulphurdunn Feb 2013 #18

i though stewart's interview was weak as well. HiPointDem Feb 2013 #20

Yes. sulphurdunn Feb 2013 #22

In the early Mattias Feb 2013 #25

yes, i think a lot of people don't know that sweden was an early adopter of the charter school HiPointDem Feb 2013 #28

As the Mattias Feb 2013 #30

I don't care about Scandinavia, which is far smaller in population and not diverse duffyduff Feb 2013 #32

Sweden v. US = Apples and Oranges. Not valid in US. duffyduff Feb 2013 #31

Her break with reality! longship Feb 2013 #26