The end is near for American education

[proud2BlibKansan]

Last Friday, as I brushed my teeth, shaved, showered, and dressed, I listened to the panel on MSNBC's Morning Joe program tell me how worthless I am.

We are approaching the end of the second year of NBC's Education Nation reports and last week I listened to the virtues of charter schools being extolled, the faults of traditional public schools being magnified, and the efforts that thousands of teachers make every day to connect with children being tossed aside like yesterday's garbage.

In order for Education Nation to exist, there has to be a crisis, and according to all of the experts lined up by NBC last week, including the Rev. Al Sharpton, Wisconsin Gov. Scott Walker, Bill Gates, and the rest of the usual suspects, the problems of education are limited to what happens once children enter the schoolhouse doors.

It is an approach that is beneficial to those who promote privatizing schools, those who peddle tests and tests to prepare for tests, and curriculum based on tests to prepare for tests. It is also beneficial to those whose chief goal is to eliminate unions of all kinds, including those representing teachers.

The only people who do not benefit are the children.

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[Solly Mack]

1. K&R

[abelenkpe]

2. k & R nt

[Riley18]

3. K&R

I did not even watch the show because I knew it was just propaganda which would raise my blood pressure. Too bad NBC anchors are not permitted to host the NBC Financial Nation report so we could address a real crisis in America. Perhaps an NBC Jobs for the Nation show....

[distilledvinegar]

4. K&R - and Jeb and Rupert

We've known for a while that Rupert Murdoch has his eye on American education $$$, but for anyone who missed it or wasn't yet convinced, take note that Rupert will be delivering a keynote address next week at the National Summit on Education Reform 2011 put on by Jeb Bush's Foundation for Excellence in Education. Is there anyone who can say with a straight face that Rupert Murdoch (or Jeb Bush) is only interested in benefiting the education of anyone? School reform is all about the money, and that's it.

[MichiganVote]

5. They made $ by privatizing community colleges & privatizing globally charter schools is next