![]() And if being a fan of Diane Ravitch, the renowned historian of education, courageous muckraker and defender of freedom of speech, and de facto leader of the defense of public education from the many attacks being made on it is being a member of a cult, well, count me in. I’m curious: are there any issues that you disagree with the AFT and/or NEA about? ![]() Very sad: she wrote several books on education which were well-regarded, but she has renounced most of her past writing in order to appeal to the education establishment, from which she NEVER dissents.” She appears to spend most of her time posting commentary on her blog which is cultishly followed by a small number of groupies who constantly tell her how wonderful she is. What is most revealing is that she hasn’t had an independent thought in at least ten years – whatever the AFT and the NEA support, she parrots their company line. After publicly changing her mind about almost everything she believed in regarding education, she has become a far Left partisan who labels anyone who disagrees with her as evil and/or stupid (in so many words). “Diane Ravitch long ago ceased to be a serious scholar. ![]() CBKĪ few days ago I came across an online comment that I saved (copied and pasted below) unfortunately I don’t recall the outlet I saw it on, but the author’s name was Susan. unless, like the environmental crisis, we don’t see it coming down the historical pike and then don’t act on it. My view, however, is also that nothing is a given. And my reading of it is that oligarchs will dispense with cow-towing to religion as soon as they get their way with the order of things. makes Devos’ shenanigans look amateurish. “economics.” At least for those charter school owners who don’t abscond with the money before anyone gets taught anything.īut for K-12, according to the playbook, the advent of charter schools is just an interim moment between truly public schools and THEIR FORM OF GOVERNMENT SCHOOLS. Think Koch and their interest in choosing higher ed teachers and building separate on-campus institutions that teach. Like all good fascists, these people have patience, money, and planning. in a working democracy that is not all-about jobs and making money that is: of public institutions (like unions?) and a regard for the law, citizenship, creativity that is not necessarily linked to economic concerns, and the public good that those institutions are there to serve.Įnter: public education with its roots directly related to democracy and at least a part of the curriculum devoted to student awareness of what it takes for democracies to survive.Īnd I don’t think the “dark” power brokers give a hoot about educating our children, especially to become civilized citizens of a working democracy (hah!) insofar as neo-liberal capitalist thinking is the fundamental thread running through the whole curriculum. The problem is the ONLY part of it along with the (long forced) disappearance from our thinking in and of its proper context. (at least) but is particularly rampant right now in the Republican Party. Hello Roy: As you probably realize, transactional thinking as the ONLY kind of thinking is a disease that comes with capitalism-only thinking and has infected the U.S. You have to create your own frame, your own language, and you have to be ruthless and brutal” You have to fight on terms that you define. “And so what we’re seeing, I think, as the first step is a narrative and symbolic war against companies like Disney, for one example. separately he lays out how to do this – Because in order for people to take significant action, they have to feel like they have something at stake.” “For example, school choice– to get universal school choice, you really need to operate from a premise of universal public school distrust. Here’s the entire speech from Rufo at Hillsdale – Video here He doesn't care about truth, he cares about attacking public ed. Exact quote: “To get to universal school choice, you really need to operate from a premise of universal public school distrust.” He said people need to “create your own narrative and frame.”
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