LAUSD- IF CHARTERS DON'T WORK, JUST LIE AND SAY THEY DO
Professor Diane Ravitch calls it "the dominant narrative." The incessant litany in the media that says the only things wrong with public education are bad teachers and not enough charge schools. Nazi Reich Minister of Propaganda Joseph Goebbels called this same kind of dominant narrative the big lie :
"If you tell a lie big enough and keep repeating it, people will eventually come to believe it. The lie can be maintained only for such time as the State can shield the people from the political, economic and/or military consequences of the lie. It thus becomes vitally important for the State to use all of its powers to repress dissent, for the truth is the mortal enemy of the lie, and thus by extension, the truth is the greatest enemy of the State."
What good public education is about is truth. Not a single truth, but the individual
