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Tuesday, May 3, 2011

Schools Matter: Back at You, Arne: An Open Letter

Schools Matter: Back at You, Arne: An Open Letter

Back at You, Arne: An Open Letter

Yesterday the pasty puppet of the plutocrats had his speechwriters put together some marvelous-sounding platitudes aimed to make teachers believe that he, Duncan, respects them. This is all a part of the new PR push to get passage of NCLB, The Sequel, which will, indeed, be cast as an unlimited bribery fund based on the Oligarchs' agenda that starving school systems will sell their souls for in order to not go totally broke.

And so today Sabrina has this open reply to Mr. Superlative:

This morning, I read Education Secretary Arne Duncan’s Open Letter to America’s Teachers. There’s a part of me that would like to take his words at face value, and another part that is quite excited over the fact that us teacher-agitators have forced a shift in the conversation about education reform, such that he has at least acknowledged (if not acted upon) many of our