tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3410387772840321888.post7162143376413806173..comments2023-10-03T11:28:42.397-04:00Comments on Badass Teachers Association Blog: BadassTeacher Associationhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06249079678877556839noreply@blogger.comBlogger4125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3410387772840321888.post-14209140918065583402014-04-08T10:47:44.623-04:002014-04-08T10:47:44.623-04:00I posted this at Oped news at this address after r...I posted this at Oped news at this address after reading it on the Ravitch Blog.<br />http://www.opednews.com/Quicklink/What-Education-Reformers--in-Best_Web_OpEds-Commitment_Constitutionalism_Corporate_Democracy-140408-306.html#comment482352<br /><br />My comment at the end of your piece was:The monetarizing of education is a disaster for out country, and it will be to late when he sleepwalking public wakes up... if they ever do, lulled into a stupor by the torrents of disinformation spilled out by the plutocrats who own the media. <br /><br />What it is doing to the children and the teachers can be found at this link to The Ravitch Blog,<br /> where a Syracuse teacher writes: " Teaching has lost its joy and spontaneity. It has become "all work and no play, At least one third of the teachers in my elementary school are now looking for work outside the profession. My kinder class is doing literacy curriculum with imaginative play completely phased out and only 20 minute recess daily. It is a stressful, rigid, boring environment that causes children and teachers to lose their spirit." (read more at the link)<br /><br />I quote the truth that Dr. Yohuru Williams and Marla Kilfoyle state at the end:<br />" the very social inequalities that deformers like Gates, Duncan, Rhee, and Broad are using to claim their agenda for public education are full of lies, a lack of research, and an alternate agenda that isn't about equality or justice; it is about the dollar and continued oppression of the poor. "<br /><br />Straight Talkhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03373213638409292670noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3410387772840321888.post-59310828716529618482014-03-25T18:42:29.080-04:002014-03-25T18:42:29.080-04:00This is the smartest essay. I've been saying t...This is the smartest essay. I've been saying this all along but never so eloquently. lindahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04586995031469389391noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3410387772840321888.post-22934994329709326292014-03-25T18:38:58.179-04:002014-03-25T18:38:58.179-04:00amen!amen!teka21https://www.blogger.com/profile/01940482505192254008noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3410387772840321888.post-15838817834384856752014-03-25T18:35:25.025-04:002014-03-25T18:35:25.025-04:00Hell, yeah, Marla and Yohuru, you tell it like it ...Hell, yeah, Marla and Yohuru, you tell it like it is! Kudos!Anonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07463522275100793936noreply@blogger.com