John Deasy's Queen Antoinette moment: "let them eat ebooks"
"Right now, only higher-income readers can afford ebook readers and ebooks." — Dr. Stephen Krashen
On September 14, 2011 former Gates Foundation executive andBroad Superintendents Academy graduate John Deasy gave a much ballyhooed speech at Occidental College. While I may have time in the future to critique his mendacious stream of business-speak, which amounted to a clever corporate couching of school privatization in the language of "civil rights," it was his aloof response to an attendee's pertinent question that deserves an immediate response. Here's a quote from an attendee who endured Deasy's verbal assault on public education:
On September 14, 2011 former Gates Foundation executive andBroad Superintendents Academy graduate John Deasy gave a much ballyhooed speech at Occidental College. While I may have time in the future to critique his mendacious stream of business-speak, which amounted to a clever corporate couching of school privatization in the language of "civil rights," it was his aloof response to an attendee's pertinent question that deserves an immediate response. Here's a quote from an attendee who endured Deasy's verbal assault on public education:
"[O]ne of Rosemary's questions about his shutting school
