Rephormy Little Liars
What Joel Klein’s “life story” tells about about Education Reform, Inc.
Low Expectations High Schools, which Joel Klein attended. A teacher rescued Klein from near certain mediocrity and launched him on his life-long crusade—against teachers.So Joel Klein’s father was not an illiterate turd farmer who once tore up the pages of young Joel’s only book and smoked them in his corn cob pipe—what’s the big deal??? When you are literally trying to close the achievement gap with your own bare hands, facts have a tendency to stray. The important thing is that Mr. Sidney Harris, the teacher whom Joel Klein credits with rescuing him from a low-expectations hell, inspired Klein to launch his life-long crusade against teachers.
If you’ve missed the latest scandal to rock the hallways of Education Reform, Inc, allow me to break it down for you. It turns out that Klein was not adopted by African American sharecroppers, and that little flourish he throws in on the edu-stump about having dyslexia and being locked in the closet at school only to be freed by a sassy barkeep, midriff barely covered by her parent-trooper t-shirt? Alas, that turns out to be fiction too. But the ending, where Klein takes a job working for Rupert Murdoch, peddling edu-products to the public schools while playing
Low Expectations High Schools, which Joel Klein attended. A teacher rescued Klein from near certain mediocrity and launched him on his life-long crusade—against teachers.If you’ve missed the latest scandal to rock the hallways of Education Reform, Inc, allow me to break it down for you. It turns out that Klein was not adopted by African American sharecroppers, and that little flourish he throws in on the edu-stump about having dyslexia and being locked in the closet at school only to be freed by a sassy barkeep, midriff barely covered by her parent-trooper t-shirt? Alas, that turns out to be fiction too. But the ending, where Klein takes a job working for Rupert Murdoch, peddling edu-products to the public schools while playing
