Monday, June 13, 2011

Schools Matter: Duncan to America's Public Schools: Give Us What We Want Or You're Dead

Schools Matter: Duncan to America's Public Schools: Give Us What We Want Or You're Dead

Duncan to America's Public Schools: Give Us What We Want Or You're Dead

There is a time bomb in your basement, and it is set to explode in 2014, maybe sooner. Only two people have the ability to disarm it without it going off, and one of them is crazy and doesn't care if your house blows up with your children in it. The other one offers to disarm the bomb if you and your family are willing to hand over a set of keys for him and his pals to do as they please at your house, whether its running your household to arranging the furniture, to how you raise your kids, to deciding what you eat.
So who are you going to deal with? Do you want to lose everything or just lose your autonomy, your freedom, your soul?

This is the deal being offered now by the Gates and Broad Foundations through their "dummied-down" stooge, Arne Duncan. Give your permission for unlimited growth of segregated corporate welfare charter schools, sign up for evalutating your teachers to be deprofessionalized and evaluated by student test scores, pay the billionaire tech boys to stock you up with data systems for constant surveillance, monitoring and year-round testing, and dump your curriculum and instruction for the Bill Gates's national plan, and sure--Arne will come right down into