Schools Matter: Cornerstone Academy Embroiled in Child Abuse Charges in Memphis

Schools Matter: Cornerstone Academy Embroiled in Child Abuse Charges in Memphis:

Cornerstone Academy Embroiled in Child Abuse Charges in Memphis

by Jim Horn

In order to encourage charter schools to "innovate," almost all oversight and regulations have been removed, so that now these corporate reform schools operate with impunity, free to pay school CEOs hundreds of thousands of tax dollars each year to run total compliance chain gangs for children, where teachers are more prison guard than educator.  The only innovation we see from these one-size fits all behavioral neutering factories is in the punishment techniques devised to break children down in order to make them entirely compliant.  

Such is the case in Memphis, which is now Ground Zero for the corporate charterization movement in U. S. urban schools.  With millions in Gates money funneled to corrupt politicians and church leaders, Memphis City Schools are being turned into a system of primarily apartheid corporate charter reform schools with large numbers of white missionaries from Teach for America hired to grind out test scores and to maintain total control

Math Lessons for Compromisers

by P. L. Thomas

Many in debates, especially the education debate, call for honoring "both sides" of issues and seeking compromise. For those let me offer some basic math lessons:

The Compromise Formula:

Truth + Lie = Lie

The "Fair and Balanced" Formula:

Both Sides - Lie = Truth

Now, Compromisers, please study because there will be a test every day from now on.