Monday, November 19, 2012

From Michigan, Rephorm Turducken | EduShyster

From Michigan, Rephorm Turducken | EduShyster:


From Michigan, Rephorm Turducken

Reader: an idea for how to rescue our union-stifled public schools is generated roughly every 3.5 seconds. Most of these edu-ideas are almost nonsensically bad. Still, there is a special category of edu-idea so catastrophically ill-informed, so stuffed with rephorminess and drenched with what the French call sauce privatisation that deserves our attention today. I give you rephorm turducken.
Lest you think that such a creature exists only in edu-mythology, I present to you exhibit A: the state of Michigan where legislators will soon take up a bill known as Mega School Choice. The bill represents rephorm turducken in its truest form: one years-long ideological crusade encased in another, wrapped around a mega