"Choice" and the language of reform
I'm in D.C. this week, thinking ahead to the summer's SOS conference which will be held here in August. It's here, the scene of last summer's SOS March & Rally, that teachers, parents, students and community activists will gather to adopt an education platform that we can organize around at upcoming Democratic and Republic conventions.
So much of ed politics is based on the language of reform. I sure you've noticed the catch words and phrases that are thrown around by the corporate reform groups. It seems like their debasement of teachers and attacks on their union rights is always couched in, "it's all about the kids -- not the adults" rhetoric. It's as if the interests of children, their parents and teachers are somehow at odds. Every corporate reform group, it seems, has taken on a name like, Stand for Children, or Children First, or We Love Children, as if the adults who run these
So much of ed politics is based on the language of reform. I sure you've noticed the catch words and phrases that are thrown around by the corporate reform groups. It seems like their debasement of teachers and attacks on their union rights is always couched in, "it's all about the kids -- not the adults" rhetoric. It's as if the interests of children, their parents and teachers are somehow at odds. Every corporate reform group, it seems, has taken on a name like, Stand for Children, or Children First, or We Love Children, as if the adults who run these