Corporate Reform Action Pack (for education) CRAP

[madfloridian]

Run time: 02:45 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mciucQi-2GA   Posted on YouTube: October 11, 2010 By YouTube Member: TeacherSabrinaFSP Views on YouTube: 306   Posted on DU: October 13, 2010 By DU Member: madfloridian Views on DU: 713

 
This video was in response to the Manifesto printed in the Washington Post about education reform and signed by these "reformers":

Joel Klein, chancellor, New York City Department of Education; Michelle Rhee, chancellor, District of Columbia Public Schools; Peter C. Gorman, superintendent, Charlotte-Mecklenburg Schools (N.C.); Ron Huberman, chief executive, Chicago Public Schools; Carol R. Johnson, superintendent, Boston Public Schools; Andrés A. Alonso, chief executive, Baltimore City Public Schools; Tom Boasberg, superintendent, Denver Public Schools; Arlene C. Ackerman, superintendent of schools, the School District of Philadelphia; William R. Hite Jr., superintendent, Prince George's County Public Schools; Jean-Claude Brizard, superintendent of schools, Rochester City School District (N.Y.); José M. Torres, superintendent, Illinois School District U-46; J. Wm. Covington, superintendent, Kansas City, Missouri School District; Terry B. Grier, superintendent of schools, Houston Independent School District; Paul Vallas, superintendent, New Orleans Recovery School District; Eugene White, superintendent, Indianapolis Public Schools; LaVonne Sheffield, superintendent of Rockford Public Schools (Illinois)

How to fix our schools: A manifesto by Joel Klein, Michelle Rhee and other education leaders

Those reformers set forth their doctrine for education. Here is the response.

The following is from the School Tech Connect blog today:

Actually, the thing I hadn't realized that the Duncan, Rhee, Klein, et al article in the Post actually used the word manifesto in the title. I was until now thinking that manifesto was a word applied to the article by satirists, but no, there it is in the actual title.

I know titles are often the result of editors' imaginations rather than authors, but what a strange, freighted word to attach to such an onminous, fact-free ideological rant. I just finished reading Barbara Kingsolver's The Lacuna, which takes place in the Joseph McCarthy era. The thing that strikes me as totally analogous to that time is the way in which the government is identifying a scapegoat for us to fear and hate (Communists/urban teachers) and then letting the press do much of the dirty work of destroying lives.

Manifesto indeed. Here's my manifesto: Arne Duncan is trying to unleash a dangerous impulse in American history--the urge to hunt witches. And he's doing it because that's how you win arguments when you know you're wrong but you don't care.

Teachers have become the enemy, and we need to be on guard lest it gets worse.

[madfloridian]

1. Some of the labeling is easier to read if you click through to You Tube.

The Orwellophone words show up bigger on the picture there. Cleverly done.

[nonoxy9]

2. Very well done!!!

[madfloridian]

3. Here's the one who did the video....her blog.

I should have included the link as well.

http://failingschools.wordpress.com/2010/10/11/introducing-the-corporate-reform-action-pack/

She did a great job.

[madrchsod]

4. robert fisk-"the words of power"

http://english.aljazeera.net/focus/2010/05/201052574726865274.html

manifesto....

[Starry Messenger]

5. k & r

[laughingliberal]

6. K & R nt

[sulphurdunn]

7. After reading the list of who's who in educational reform

it's clear that the Invasion of the Pod People is far more advanced than I had thought. Bless their hearts, even if they are vegetable alien life forms without real hearts like animals have, all I can say is "thank god our saviors have arrived!" Who would have thought, before the transformation, that the real problems of American schools could be laid at the feet of highly motivated, well educated, professionally accredited, organized teachers paid lower middle class wages? Now we know! The solution was highly naive, less well educated, unaccredited, unorganized teachers paid poverty waages! Before I knew that resistance was futile and became one with the collective pod consciousness I would have thought it had something to do with social and economic injustice. Ha! Ha! Ha! :grouphug: