solidaridad: Pots, Kettles, and Ben Austin's Unconscionable Hypocrisy

solidaridad: Pots, Kettles, and Ben Austin's Unconscionable Hypocrisy

Pots, Kettles, and Ben Austin's Unconscionable Hypocrisy

by Robert D. Skeels * rdsathene

First published in Schools Matter on 2011-07-18


There's nothing the matter with teachers that a little less unionization and more COMPETITION couldn't cure. —Ann Coulter (racist reactionary right wing pundit)


It would force the district to learn how to run great schools by forcing them to COMPETE. — Ben Austin(Executive Director LAPU/Parent Revolution)



Few people are more despicable than Ben Austin, Executive Director of the so-called Parent Revolution (née Los Angeles Parents Union - LAPU) school privatization junta. After all, anyone mendacious enough to claim they're a parent with children enrolled in school when they have no school age children is lacking of any scruples. [1] Moreover, a man who