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Educating our children: not the way to do it
I’m so vehemently opposed to the deceit of “charter schools” (translation: pseudo private schools — some of them profit-making — which con parents and steal money from public school education), I read this, first on Twitter, and went nuts. So … Continue reading
Posted in The Facts of Life
Tagged 538 Significant Digits, charter schools, Jeff Bezos, public school education, Twitter
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Want to know why I loathe charter schools?
The very, very rich people–like Betsy DeVos–whose fact-free belief in their superiority leads them to the condescending notion that they know best how to educate kids. In case you didn’t already guess, it’s founded in racism. Meet another such rotten … Continue reading
Posted in Koch Bros Final Solution to Democracy, The Facts of Life, The filthy rich
Tagged Andrew Cuomo, Andrew Stewart-Cousins, Betsy DeVos, charter schools, Daniel Loeb, Department of Education, KKK, Ku Klux Klan, New York State Senate, New York State Senate Minority Leader, projection mechanism, psychiatric projection, racism in charter schools, Success Academy, teachers union
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“Dismal Voucher Results Surprise Researchers as DeVos Era Begins”
After Nikole Hannah-Jones’s calm yet impassioned essay on public schools comes this from today’s Times. Given the bits and pieces I’ve read about whether vouchers/charter schools offer academic advantage over genuine free public schools, I was startled and greatly encouraged … Continue reading
Posted in Politics, The Facts of Life
Tagged charter schools, Department of Education, public school education, school vouchers
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