Educators Call to Armed Struggle?
No less than Diane Ravitch is calling for rioting in the streets of Detroit by teachers and parents for school closures and increased size of classes up to 60 in order to balance the budget. Her outrage over the destruction of public schools throughout the US is justifiable. In Providence, Rhode Island they’ll be firing all of its teachers. Idaho is laying off teachers. My county, Prince George’s County, MD, is not only looking to decimate the school system with a thousand layoffs next year, but will increase the presence of ROTC in the schools. Arne Duncan must have taught Dr. Hite well in how to militarize a public school system that is one of the poorest in the state.
Just looking at my system for a moment we see that a major hit will go to the media science, in other words, the librarians. Maybe George Bush couldn’t stand up to them as he went after the librarians who campaigned to protect internet use at their sites, but apparently our ‘Democratic’ state has no qualms about victimizing these great public servants. Libraries?? Ever teach in a high school that didn’t have a functioning library? I taught in three in Baltimore that shared an invisible library. Interesting how these two municipalities rank the lowest in the state on the high stakes tests. Could there be some correlation?
The problem with rioting is that it is often too random and the victims of the system are often those affected by
